I don't know since when people have started freaking out over things.

Take Japan nuclear "meltdown" for example.

Japan is on the opposite end and here we are, people buying up salt like crazy that numerous places are sold out of salt.

Do people not use their heads to think anymore?

At the very least, try to find out what it's all about before freaking the shit out of yourselves.

I actually saw one of those (30x30'') sign stand at a major intersection selling bulk salt. WTF!?

not only Americans

Austria is sold out of Geiger-Counters

wait...why is everyone buying up the salt?

They are killing themselves with salt before the radiation gets to them.

Wait until they find out there's radiation in bananas, you won't need guns anymore.

Because it has a tiny amount of Jodium...

Someone else recently made a thread about how American Media is so worried about radiation reaching North America and how American's are freaking out. Alittle Dejavu, too lazy to actually find the thread but it was fairly recent.

I find it sort of funny, but the case in which the media is pushing it. I live In BC and Vancouver is the closest your gonna get to the radiation in Canada and our media isn't really freaking out. Infact the media said Iodine pills were selling out but had a nuclear expert on television to assure people that the radition leak if a major one occurs would not actually be significant in North America.

Their are paranoid people everywhere around the globe, I know it was reported on the news that around the Ontario Nuclear plant people were also buying Iodine pills as if that reactor was going to blow. After 9/11 people freaked that Vancouver would get suicide bombed or a plane fly into it.

People freak out when given a chance and logic doesn't seem to stop them. Its very easy to scare a population. Look at Y2K Microsoft and others re-assured everyone nothing was going to happen, the Governments of the world said nothing was going to happen. Yet tons of people hid in bomb shelters and storm cellars expecting the world to end.

People are idiots just take this 2012 thing, scientists and archeologists are all saying now that they were wrong and the actual calendar ended already. The day in 2012 is the wrong date the calendar is already over. Yet thousands of moron's believe the world is going to end in 2012. (Mods - Please don't ban me for calling them morons)

Fact is people always have to be scared of something, even if everything was going perfect they would find something to freak out about. Its human nature to get freaked out!

Thing is, not only pills. People are actually buying up the salt! Those salt that we use for cooking.

Sounds to me like you're asking "Are Americans Stupid?"

But you'd get a ban for that.

The majority of people in the world are thick as shit, not much you can do about it. They certainly don't have the forward thinking problem solving and common sense that the "non stupid" people think they should have.

Then again the stupid people get the non stupid people confused with being opinionated, stuck up, etc. Again showing their stupid because they can't discern between the two. Or understand what discern means for that matter, or identify a joke ;)

This.  And the media profits off of these people.  I also think it has alot to do with education level (less educated people are more gullible).

Now the media has most of the attention focused on the radiation aspect in Japan because it is more interesting than the real problem - people dying from the Tsunami and quake itself.  Also, the fact that people aren't getting enough food and water in shelters.

In reality, you are more likely going to die from gettin run over by a car.  However, that is less interesting than radiation.

As I said I haven't seen my local or national media reporting on radiation reaching NA. They reported on all the morons buying iodine pills but very little on actual radiation reaching here.

I did watch a story on Fox about radiation reaching California, Oregon and Washington. I thought that was pretty funny. But I don't watch Fox or CNN that much these days, are they really reporting this stuff and trying to convince people that radiation could reach them?

If they are, that is another reason I hate watching CNN and FOX for news. They are always biased and unreliable. Its far better to watch CBC, BBC, Al-Jazeera etc...etc... Or go online and read Reutors or Associated Press. Fox and CNN are often full of crap.

Are they seriously reporting those kinds of lies? (Radiation could reach US west coast)