I won't deny there's almost certainly high idiocy element involved, nor will I be surprised if some people end up in the hospital (or morgue) because they are particularly allergic to it and decided to take half a dozen times the appropriate amount, which is basically designed to be an overdose itself anyway. Again, the stuff not cyanide and I think some of the counter reports of how dangerous it is might be exaggerating that more than they should too. But much to my surprise, as a lifelong cynic, people generally tend to be fairly intelligent and rational, I suspect many are using common sense and many others will start using it before long. Frankly I'd prefer people over-reacting then under-reacting, where seeing to their own preparedness is concerned, so long as it doesn't involve guns or crowbars of course.



It is actually very cheap and abundant, there's just not generally a big private sector demand for it (as radiation pills anyway). Various military and emergency reactors keep the stuff around, I recall there was a bit of a run on it post 9/11, those supplies would be a bit past their shelf-life if not renewed though, but properly stored they last even longer and even then, 'shelf-life' is a bit misleading, the stuff doesn't rot or turn poisonous or anything, just tends to dissolve slower.



I doubt anyone buying the stuff in the US will find any need for it any time soon, I'd also be incredibly surprised if any country that made use of reactors didn't have enough to handle the effected range of a worst-case meltdown. Actually, 'surprised' wouldn't really cover it, KI's a pretty common chemical used for a lot of stuff, including teaching basic chemistry, its not exactly rocket surgery to take KI and put it into proper sized dosages.



Rather dumb, I'd hope a pharmacy that wasn't planning on raising its prices significantly would place a limit per customer on it. Makes me wish I'd bought stock in one of these companies that makes it when I first heard about the reactors. Ah well, early bid gets the worm.



Well, I believe he also recommends seed banks. The great big old apocalypse wheel starts spinning around and wherever it lands generally has different things that can be handy that might be utterly useless in most others, in a full blown economic crash gold would probably be rather valuable, and it has an even better shelf life than canned goods, if the zombie apocalypse happens its so much heavy crap and ammo is valuable. Best survival trait is knowledge, and people getting all panicky now will probably calm down and finish more knowledgeable and better prepared next time around. There's also a lot to be said about not panicking over panic. I'd imagine quite a few people have profiteered small fortunes off selling the stuff and a lot of people. Look, the gov't keeps hordes of manuals, pamphlets, etc on post-disaster and disaster-prep, all freely available to the public and all very good sources, if some morons want to waste their money now then maybe afterwards they and others might decide to go about it a bit smarter, personally I doubt their KI hoarding is a concern, when they calm down they can donate some of it away or make nice little survival kit gifts for friends.