Sean Brennan wrote:
Fox "News" idiot Glenn Beck tries to downplay the nuclear disaster by saying only 40 or so people died in the Chernobyl accident in Russia, but fails to mention that while there were about 56 immediate deaths, the "official" count of deaths due to radiation exposure grew to over 4,000 as time passed, with some studies showing up to 500,000 casualties (not to mention the entire city had to be abandoned and radiation spreading over thousands of miles, getting into the food chain, etc).

These republicans are SO stupid they don't even understand what the problem is. He's thinking that this is like a nuclear bomb going off or something rather than a disaster that is spreading radiation around that can immediate kill and also kill over a more extended period of time.

Dumb ass! Some people in Russian part of Internet were really enrages by his speech (it was translated and published), and I had to explain to them what Fox News really is and what opinion progressive Americans have on this source of "information".

As for Chernobyl, a part of Voronezh region had radioactive rains (and it's 900 km away from Chernobyl), and I know at least one person in Voronezh who died from it - my school teacher of Russian and literature . She was at her country cottage, and she got exposed to that rain. She didn't rush to hide from it, even enjoyed the rain drops, since nobody knew that it was dangerous. She got sick after that (mild case of radiation sickness, as I get it). And some time ago she died from consequences - brittleness of bones etc.


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Irina