Small wonder that there was a wave panic buying of things like iodine tablets and Geiger counters. Things got so bad that people were ordering them as far away as Paris. I'm not sure if this is due to ignorance or pure superstition (Yes, science can generate it as much as any other cause; maybe more).
According to Modern Mechanix, the Greatest Generation didn't sit around fretting about the lack of counters on ebay, they went out and built their own.
Me? I'm waiting until reality and buyers remorse kick in. There are going to be a lot of cheap secondhand counters out there in a few weeks.
* Hint: If the scare lede is followed by an interview with an expert who isn't within three thousand miles of Japan using the words like "could", "may", and "indicate", that's when the scepticism circuit should kick in.
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