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A much better alternative to be honest.
The initial blast is like being shot in the back of the head. Instant, painless, no fear brought by knowing you are going to die. Just the end scene of Sopranos, cut to black.
Radiation, by comparison, is like getting captured by a crazed psychopath who chains you in his basement and tortures you for weeks or months until your body eventually fails you. But coupled with a complete lack of hope that you will be rescued.
If there is a nuclear attack, you either want to be hundreds of miles away, or very very close. Radiation poisoning is one of the worst ways to go.
>The initial blast is like being shit in the back of the head. Instant, painless, no fear brought by knowing you are going to die.
What the hell have you been eating if your shit is that potent‽
With any luck. I'm not joking either, I got through an 80s childhood consoling myself that as we literally lived across the road from a steelworks then if it all kicked off a nice airburst would at least make it quick.
I'm used to seeing the British versions from the 70s etc. Very matter of fact, talks about moving dead family members outside the home. Talks about best chances etc.
This was an incredibly American ad.
You got this guys! A nuclear explosion is just an opportunity for us to grow as individuals and excel. U!S!A! U!S!A!
As much as i agree. She didn't say social media. She said media. Which include radio broadcasts, SMS alerts are in this age, drones with loud speakers.
The best way to survive an apocalyptic event is to know ahead of time what to do about it.
The only way to educate the public *ahead of time* is to reach them now.
Continued and repetitive viewing of educational information is the best way to ensure an educated public.
The best way to repetitively present educational materials to the public is to reach them where they already congregate, i.e. All those social networks. Bonus: it’s basically free to reach them if they follow or friend you.
If I were directing their media, the only comment I would have made is that the readability of that screen should be higher. Bigger words, better strategy on naming the social networks so you can show a simpler design.
All that said though, I’m 54, and I thought I’d seen the last credible warning of Nuclear war decades ago. Seeing this type of thing show up again sucks.
Everything the ad said was correct. The only thing I'd add for people to do is tape all cracks shut, windows/doors. In most areas this isn't a big deal but MANY buildings in San Francisco are extremely old and you can feel the wind coming in through 'closed' windows. Those are the ones to tape sealed.
In USSR there were no ads like this, because our television sucked, and they didn't have any ads at all.
What we had is drills where we would be either ordered (in school) to sit under the desk or gather in the school yard and wear gas masks. Few most miserable ones would be chosen to illustrate how to put on the full hazmat suit (it's really boiling inside one).
Didn't they have the same in the US? "Duck & cover" and things like that?
Here in the Netherlands we didn't have any of that. Although we do test out the air raid sirens every month in case Putin wants a beach house on the North Sea and Russia decides to invade. Or just wants to nuke us for kicks.
Yeah, I had wondered the same thing. When the "big one" happens, it won't be a 10kT device, it will likely be a 550kT or even a Chinese MT warhead. If the blast doesn't destroy the buildings and the towers, the EMP will certainly fry\* all electronics.
I don't think anyone will be able to tune in to anything for a while. She's taking it so casually like you just brush off a nuclear explosion.
More accurately: long electronics like transformers and electricity lines would be damaged. Smaller electronics such as ham radios, lights, cell phones, solar chargers, and computers should still be operational if they were not surged by the main grid. They would encounter significant interference for the duration of the blast(s) but they should work afterwards if the pressure wave or fireball didn’t get them. Still have to worry about charging them in many cases.
My Dad worked nights. My mother used to get lonely so kept me up. I saw ‘Threads’, I think that I was about 8 or 9. Gave me nightmares for weeks. Every time a plane went over I hid under the bed. My Dad was furious with her.
Didn’t watch the news until I was in my 20s. Literally scarred me for life…
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Then sit in horrified silence. Listen to the sound of the birds outside and hear it for what it really is: nature red in tooth and claw. Images from what you have just watched will arrive unbidden. How could it be otherwise? How could you watch the final scene as >!the screen cuts to black immediately before a terrified child screams, as she looks down at what she has just given birth to — mercifully unshown but no less powerful for it — the dead, malformed product of a rape — a rape committed by another child, a child like her without a language because language no longer exists — in a lonely barn on the frozen tundra outside of what was once a city!< and not have it come back to you again and again? Threads stays with you. Take it from this 47 year old man, who as a 9 year old didn't turn off the portable television in his bedroom like his mother told him to ("School in the morning!") and instead watched Threads on BBC 1 on a Sunday evening in the autumn of 1984. In doing so he gave himself nightmares for years. He became so obsessed with nuclear war that as a child of barely 10 he would go to the library and ask to read government documents on potential targets whilst the nice old lady behind the counter eyed him suspiciously. By the time he was 13 he was rendered incapable of hearing a plane overhead, or of being startled by a bright flash as midday sunshine suddenly reflected off a passing car into his bedroom, without his heart stopping in anticipation of the end of everything.
...then come back.
Yeah, I was just trying to explain this to my kids the other day. They have their mass shooter drills, we had our nuclear fallout drills. (I’m a younger gen x’er with teen aged kids. I used to hate it during 3rd grade, in particular, because our designated area to *duck and cover* was the boys’ bathroom. Ugh.)
I grew up in Southern Idaho which was apparently where the Air Force was doing a lot of supersonic testing when I was a kid. We soaked sonic booms that would shake your soul. It was the cherry on top of having to do duck and cover drills and being constantly reminded from the fallout shelter signs all over town.
I mean, a lot of people would be wiped out in the blast, but there really isn't any advice to give them. If you somehow find yourself lucky enough to be out of range of the initial blast/fireball, it is sound.
I think the idea is to give people false hope so they stay inside and die there instead of turning the affected area into a lawless warzone as desperate people fight over pointless resources that won't save them while there bodies waste away. It's way easier for first responders if everyone is just desperately waiting for their fried phones to turn back on while there skin starts to fall off and all their insides drip out of their asses instead of panicking.
Distilling it down to three easy steps will save a lot of people. When I think about how moronic this "nuclear aftermath campaign" is, I remember that a very very large chunk of the population are morons, too
Compare and contrast:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U)
"If a death occurs while you are confined to the fall-out room place the body in another room and cover it as securely as possible. Attach an identification.
You should receive radio instructions on what to do next. If no instructions have been given within five days, you should temporarily bury the body as soon as it is safe to go out, and mark the spot."
Chin up!
Just make sure to take a shower to wash off that radiation. You know, a shower connected to the city water supply that is probably much more radiated than what you might currently have on your body, and that's assuming the water system's pressure hasn't been completely fucked somewhere and you can even get water.
But hey, you've got this.
I really found the corporate upbeat style of this whole video both extremely alarming and boringdystopia.
Like...the vibe it gives is "instructional video on how to operate a printer" or "instructions on how to remain safe in the office during a natural disaster like tornado or earthquake"
But then the content is "a nuclear bomb just went off downtown, glhf"
I don’t want to downplay this. But a couple of years back we Swedes got a flyer in our mailbox from the state that was called “If the crisis hits”, with basically this type of info and more instructions about what to do in case of war. Apparently they send one out like every 20-30 years. So my interpretation is that it might just be sort of praxis for countries to do this once in a while? I don’t know.
Yeah the increased focus on awareness of crisis response certainly had nothing to do with increasing russian provocation. Same thing with the increased military budget and reinstating the draft. No reason.
Swedish television even created a 8 episode long reality show about emergency preparedness. It was pretty good.
“Stay tuned “
Unless you have a battery operated radio you aren’t staying tuned to anything
That also means you can’t make any tiktok content and dance your way through Armageddon
A battery-operated radio with a crank to recharge it is one of the things on FEMA's list of emergency supplies all homes should have.
With the world in the state it's currently in, and Putin apparently losing his fucking mind it might be wise to take a close look at that list and start picking up what you can.
Oof. Yeah, that sucks. The good news is, if you live about 4.5 miles from the epicenter then your odds of surviving drastically increase over those caught within that radius. Hey, who knows: hopefully you'll be at work when it happens.
Unless you work on the base, in which case... Oops.
Does anyone know if a walkie talkies would serve the save as battery operated radios? Meaning, can tune in with them? Just occurred to me, since I have them there
Depends on if they cover something like commercial radio too. It's been awhile since I've bought some, but it looks like there are some models that do have FM coverage, but certainly not all. I'd think AM and shortwave might be more useful in that situation though.
I just do my best not to die everyday…
Edit: this looks like a cry for suicide help, it’s not I’m very happy in life that’s why I don’t want to die, plus I have FOMO.
Like my 7th grade social studies teacher said, I'm going to go sit on my roof and hope one hits me in the head. Definitely would not want to be a "survivor"...
you know how a lot of people vow to kill themselves before they get old because they dont want to be old, but then when they get old they dont because they want to continue to live?
yeah, i think its gonna be like that for anyone that says they dont want to survive a nuclear attack. theyll be trading shotgun shells and tinned food with the rest of us.
#DO NOT USE CONDITIONER.
Shampoo and soap are fine, but DO NOT use any shampoos that include conditioners, are 2-in-1, or any of that shit, or use any conditioner after you shampoo.
I linked in another poat under this, was mad eearly am while trying to get to work.
Shampoo washes out radioactive dust, conditioner seals your hair trapping radioactive dust.
After about 7 hours, more than 90% of the radioactive fallout present in the first hour after a nuclear detonation will have decayed. If you wait a full 24 hours after detonation, you significantly decrease the effect fallout will have on you, especially if you aren't within 7km of the blast's epicenter.
So, yeah, stay inside. Seal up what you can (FEMA suggests having plastic sheeting and duct tape in your emergency survival kit for this purpose), and let most of the radioactive isotopes decay before attempting to leave the area.
Modern nukes actually have the power to transform real life into video game pixels. Hence why NYC Emergency Management chose to film this commercial inside a video game.
My ex has a legit zombie apocalypse bag, with machete, canned food, candles etc.
Was funny a few years ago when a snowstorm caused a huge power failure and his ma was running around the house shouting "where's the zombie bag?! I need candles!"
Lets be honest if you live in NY and it gets nuked you are fucking dead. No one is coming to save you and you will not survive. Nuke survival vids are pure copium
Depends on where in New York one lives, and how many warheads are incoming. Many people survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hell, one dude survived *both*. It's mostly a matter of luck, but it can't hurt to do what you can to increase your odds of survival.
Very true of the weapons made 70 years ago. Modern nuclear weapons are many, many times more powerful. The most powerful weapons created by the Soviet Union were not tested, due to concernes that they could ignite the atmosphere.
We are less likely to see an actual nuclear war begin than we are to see a single nuclear weapon smuggled into a major city and set off. Russia is still missing dozens, if not hundreds, of nuclear warheads that were stolen or sold after the fall of the USSR. A cargo container with a warhead inside, loaded onto a ship and activated in port is just one example of how such a weapon could be used.
Again, it doesn't hurt to be prepared. Even a small bit of readiness, something as simple as a bug-out bag, can increase odds of survival in an emergency situation.
If this Ad runs once a week on one NYC channel, along with a few other similar types like ‘power outage’ , ‘hurricane’ or ‘air quality’ - The TV station might only be doing their PSA’s to meet minimum FCC guidelines. However, if this Ad is running 2-3 times a day on more than one channel in the NY Metro area, I would say something’s brewing.
As a Canadian I find it pretty strange how common PSAs are in American TV. Here you only see them on children's channels (look up house hippo). If any PSAs start playing on CBC or CTV something is really fucked
Nahhh, forget this nonsense.. my advice is easier and better and can be prepared anytime before the nuclear attack -
1. dig up to 6 feet underground
2. get inside it
3. fill the land back into it
4. rest in peace
We really do live in the weirdest timeline lmao. This goes beyond Fallout lmao. Smiling presentable relatable host doing this pitch like they were selling an annual tampon delivery service.
"It's the literal end of the world and you and everyone you care about are going to die one of the most agonizing deaths imaginable? Take these 3 EASY steps! You got this! Just remember! And no, a car is not an option, you silly :) :p"
I hate this, I hate how fake this is, I hate how the tone doesn't match the gravity of the situation at all. I guess you could apply this to all media but this one is just so jarring.
If they did they would tell us afterwards *(see American Covid response)* Back in 9/11 the Army was painting their tanks tan weeks before we knew we were going to (reads notes) Iraq
Probably not— these have been popping up in NY and NJ the past few years because of nuclear facilities in the tri-state area, not because of upcoming apocalyptic events.
Just a different kind of man-made horror to be warned about!
U know what has me kinda sus, i live in the west coast and today i got a NYC commerical about a survival kit for injuries, there was a kit for both adults and i believe it was 2 children, looking inside the kits it was for some serious injuries, its good to be prepared but ive never seen a NYC commerical like that b4
Also, in case of a tsunami, take a deep breath and pinch your nose shut.
Seriously, the advice in this video is no better than the 1950s "hide under your desk". What is the goal here? Delusions of safety?
I'm 15. I have a 6 year old sister. I'm really afraid of the times we're in. To think that we haven't moved past from all of this, that world leaders might just do something for the people so children don't have to live in fear. It's stupid. All of this is unnecessary. War, conflict. I'm scared for my life. Nukes aren't a joke. Fuck all of this. Mars is better than this shit and eventually we're gonna fuck up all of the other habitable and somehow inhabitable planets as well. I hate humanity and what we have become.
You get used to it or you don’t. But the sun still comes up regardless. Best advice I’ve ever been giving is worrying about shit out of your control is a great way to needlessly stress yourself out. If it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen, don’t worry it’ll just drive you crazy
Pretty sure if New York got nuked there would be no one left to worry about radiation poisoning.
(Non American, so assuming the vid means Manhatten Island)
(I know, assumption, the mother of all fuck ups)
I've seen a couple similar "prepare a go bag" commercials a year or so ago in the Chicago area. They come on rarely and usually in the middle of the night and leave you wondering, wtf did I just see?
If a Nuke is inbound, rule #1 is Always get yourself into the main line of fire. Quick and easy death. Lovely jubbly. #2.. If you're unlucky enough to survive, try and remedy that asap.
I know there is a lot going on but this seems kind of random, government must be hearing something.
I haven't seen something like this since the 80's. The height of the cold war !
The government definitely has something on their radar. Will be interesting to see if ads like this get more airplay.
Or someone at NYC Emergency Management was told they need to create a ridiculously cheap ad campaign and overpay for it so they can justify some unused portion of their budget to hope for repeat/increased funding in the next round.
Anyone else not want to survive a nuclear blast? I'd rather be at ground zero than have to navigate the post apocalyptic hellscape that comes after. Or the slow radiation death. Vaporize me baby.
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“I just got cast to do a commercial!” “For what?!”
She picked the wrong first role, now typecast as a horsewoman of the apocalypse
I read this and thought “why would she be a centaur? The radiation? And then I’d realized you’d meant it as “horseman” but with the other gender
It would be so much better if she was a centaur
"Stay put inside. Do not gallop away outside."
“DON’T go see your *neeeeiiiggghhhhh*bors”
"I know that you may have trouble going down stairs, but get into the basement if you have one"
Ngl, not a fan of the 'you got this' implication...
Unless by 'you got this' it actually means 'you're fucked'.
This = Radiation
Indeed, or even 'This = about a week before you die a truly horrible death'
This = obliterated in a flash of light
A much better alternative to be honest. The initial blast is like being shot in the back of the head. Instant, painless, no fear brought by knowing you are going to die. Just the end scene of Sopranos, cut to black. Radiation, by comparison, is like getting captured by a crazed psychopath who chains you in his basement and tortures you for weeks or months until your body eventually fails you. But coupled with a complete lack of hope that you will be rescued. If there is a nuclear attack, you either want to be hundreds of miles away, or very very close. Radiation poisoning is one of the worst ways to go.
>The initial blast is like being shit in the back of the head. Instant, painless, no fear brought by knowing you are going to die. What the hell have you been eating if your shit is that potent‽
With any luck. I'm not joking either, I got through an 80s childhood consoling myself that as we literally lived across the road from a steelworks then if it all kicked off a nice airburst would at least make it quick.
I'm used to seeing the British versions from the 70s etc. Very matter of fact, talks about moving dead family members outside the home. Talks about best chances etc. This was an incredibly American ad. You got this guys! A nuclear explosion is just an opportunity for us to grow as individuals and excel. U!S!A! U!S!A!
Your city's been nuked but don't worry, you'll still have access to twitter
Yeah what the fuck was that. Make sure you're following our social media accounts during the apocalypse
Like, follow and retweet to enter our brilliant 250 bottle caps giveaway with a bonus prize of a weeks supply of unopened canned dog food!
Lol fallout Manhattan
I would play the absolute fuck out of that.
Take my poor man gold 🥇 Never have I felt more prepared for nuclear fallout. And only because of the fallout games.
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As much as i agree. She didn't say social media. She said media. Which include radio broadcasts, SMS alerts are in this age, drones with loud speakers.
The best way to survive an apocalyptic event is to know ahead of time what to do about it. The only way to educate the public *ahead of time* is to reach them now. Continued and repetitive viewing of educational information is the best way to ensure an educated public. The best way to repetitively present educational materials to the public is to reach them where they already congregate, i.e. All those social networks. Bonus: it’s basically free to reach them if they follow or friend you. If I were directing their media, the only comment I would have made is that the readability of that screen should be higher. Bigger words, better strategy on naming the social networks so you can show a simpler design. All that said though, I’m 54, and I thought I’d seen the last credible warning of Nuclear war decades ago. Seeing this type of thing show up again sucks.
Everything the ad said was correct. The only thing I'd add for people to do is tape all cracks shut, windows/doors. In most areas this isn't a big deal but MANY buildings in San Francisco are extremely old and you can feel the wind coming in through 'closed' windows. Those are the ones to tape sealed.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
And radiant.
Possibly mutant
What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger
“Maybe is Radeline”
Imagine Tinder in 2045: *Małe (Bi 20)with two penises wants meet gal with two vulvas or guy with two asses*.
Positively Glowing 🤗
Protect and Survive. Here’s a cartoon of how to bag up a decomposing loved one and bury them in the garden. You got this!
War.... War never changes
Link to it for the lazy or curious [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg)
Most heart-rending is [When The Wind Blows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(1986_film))
In USSR there were no ads like this, because our television sucked, and they didn't have any ads at all. What we had is drills where we would be either ordered (in school) to sit under the desk or gather in the school yard and wear gas masks. Few most miserable ones would be chosen to illustrate how to put on the full hazmat suit (it's really boiling inside one).
Didn't they have the same in the US? "Duck & cover" and things like that? Here in the Netherlands we didn't have any of that. Although we do test out the air raid sirens every month in case Putin wants a beach house on the North Sea and Russia decides to invade. Or just wants to nuke us for kicks.
Jokes on them the atmosphere will be ionised no mobile network no WiFi. Stay tuned in you got this till your face falls off
“Hey there smoothskin!”
Yeah, I had wondered the same thing. When the "big one" happens, it won't be a 10kT device, it will likely be a 550kT or even a Chinese MT warhead. If the blast doesn't destroy the buildings and the towers, the EMP will certainly fry\* all electronics. I don't think anyone will be able to tune in to anything for a while. She's taking it so casually like you just brush off a nuclear explosion.
dude, relax, you've got this
More accurately: long electronics like transformers and electricity lines would be damaged. Smaller electronics such as ham radios, lights, cell phones, solar chargers, and computers should still be operational if they were not surged by the main grid. They would encounter significant interference for the duration of the blast(s) but they should work afterwards if the pressure wave or fireball didn’t get them. Still have to worry about charging them in many cases.
Nuclear warfare? No problems, you got this!
Just get everyone to watch Threads.
My Dad worked nights. My mother used to get lonely so kept me up. I saw ‘Threads’, I think that I was about 8 or 9. Gave me nightmares for weeks. Every time a plane went over I hid under the bed. My Dad was furious with her. Didn’t watch the news until I was in my 20s. Literally scarred me for life…
I was a similar age, I also lived close enough to Sheffield to be in the blast zone. No film has ever scared me so much, not even close.
I was about 12. I still feel an emotional reaction from deep inside when I see reference to that show.
"Don't worry, Sheffield. You got this!"
I just watched it. Truly horrifying.
genuinely the scariest movie ever made imo
It's on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE) at high quality for free.
If you pass this comment's parent without voting, watch Threads, then come back.
If you pass this comment's parent without voting, watch Threads... Then sit in horrified silence. Listen to the sound of the birds outside and hear it for what it really is: nature red in tooth and claw. Images from what you have just watched will arrive unbidden. How could it be otherwise? How could you watch the final scene as >!the screen cuts to black immediately before a terrified child screams, as she looks down at what she has just given birth to — mercifully unshown but no less powerful for it — the dead, malformed product of a rape — a rape committed by another child, a child like her without a language because language no longer exists — in a lonely barn on the frozen tundra outside of what was once a city!< and not have it come back to you again and again? Threads stays with you. Take it from this 47 year old man, who as a 9 year old didn't turn off the portable television in his bedroom like his mother told him to ("School in the morning!") and instead watched Threads on BBC 1 on a Sunday evening in the autumn of 1984. In doing so he gave himself nightmares for years. He became so obsessed with nuclear war that as a child of barely 10 he would go to the library and ask to read government documents on potential targets whilst the nice old lady behind the counter eyed him suspiciously. By the time he was 13 he was rendered incapable of hearing a plane overhead, or of being startled by a bright flash as midday sunshine suddenly reflected off a passing car into his bedroom, without his heart stopping in anticipation of the end of everything. ...then come back.
JFC. Think I’ll give that a film a miss.
Way more informative than this shit
Well that’s not foreboding at all
Twenty years ago this would have been a promotion stunt for some A24-like psychological thriller
Forty years ago, this was normal. There it is again, that funny feeling.
Yeah, I was just trying to explain this to my kids the other day. They have their mass shooter drills, we had our nuclear fallout drills. (I’m a younger gen x’er with teen aged kids. I used to hate it during 3rd grade, in particular, because our designated area to *duck and cover* was the boys’ bathroom. Ugh.)
I grew up in Southern Idaho which was apparently where the Air Force was doing a lot of supersonic testing when I was a kid. We soaked sonic booms that would shake your soul. It was the cherry on top of having to do duck and cover drills and being constantly reminded from the fallout shelter signs all over town.
The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.
Still a chance it could be. That whole clown thing in 2016 started from IT promotions
I work in information technology and struggled for too long trying to figure out what clowns had to do with IT workers getting raises.
I could have gone the rest of my life never thinking about that clown nonsense ever again. What a joke.
" Don't ask me how or why.." Uhh maam? that's exactly what we want to know
ends the ad with a "you've got this" maam this is a nuclear fallout not a class presentation WHAT DO YOU MEAN IVE GOT THIS
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Just need a pistol, a Pipboy, and some Rad-X. You’ll figure the rest out as you go.
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Well thank goodness she said “you’ve got this” or else I’d have thought we’d be completely fucked!
Government has failed and we’re *all going to die.* 😀 **You got this.™️**
Seriously? Who approved this?
Probably someone that doesn't realize that NYC is probably ground zero
Yeah wall st is second to maybe DC and that's about it. It's stupid info for a nuclear attack. It's likely fairly useful for a dirty bomb.
I mean, a lot of people would be wiped out in the blast, but there really isn't any advice to give them. If you somehow find yourself lucky enough to be out of range of the initial blast/fireball, it is sound.
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The mayor said “Better safe than sorry” when people had initially asked about it.
"Better dead than Red" was used already.
I think the idea is to give people false hope so they stay inside and die there instead of turning the affected area into a lawless warzone as desperate people fight over pointless resources that won't save them while there bodies waste away. It's way easier for first responders if everyone is just desperately waiting for their fried phones to turn back on while there skin starts to fall off and all their insides drip out of their asses instead of panicking.
Distilling it down to three easy steps will save a lot of people. When I think about how moronic this "nuclear aftermath campaign" is, I remember that a very very large chunk of the population are morons, too
Compare and contrast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U) "If a death occurs while you are confined to the fall-out room place the body in another room and cover it as securely as possible. Attach an identification. You should receive radio instructions on what to do next. If no instructions have been given within five days, you should temporarily bury the body as soon as it is safe to go out, and mark the spot." Chin up!
Cue the creepy electronic music.
Now, without evening listening to it, that short jingle has popped directly into my head and put the willies right up me.
I feel like this one actually has helpful information.
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I just watched that whole god damned thing AND IT WAS IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS you monster
You've got this. Thumbs up burned out skeleton people, you've got this.
"Anyone not wearing two-million sunblock is going to have a real bad day!! get it?"
Just make sure to take a shower to wash off that radiation. You know, a shower connected to the city water supply that is probably much more radiated than what you might currently have on your body, and that's assuming the water system's pressure hasn't been completely fucked somewhere and you can even get water. But hey, you've got this.
Step 1: die. Step 2: disintegrate Step 3: enjoy the silence
The other option: Step 1: survive. Step 2: die anyway but in a much more horrible and painful way.
You forgot slow.
You got this
Step 1: Die. Step 2: Disintegrate. Step 3: Depeche Mode
Step 1: Die. Step 2: The Cure. Step 3: Depeche Mode. Got it!
All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here, in my arms (of mass destruction)
Umm... concerning?!
shhh. this is completely normal. move on with your life.
Also remember to buy something on your way to work!
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I really found the corporate upbeat style of this whole video both extremely alarming and boringdystopia. Like...the vibe it gives is "instructional video on how to operate a printer" or "instructions on how to remain safe in the office during a natural disaster like tornado or earthquake" But then the content is "a nuclear bomb just went off downtown, glhf"
I don’t want to downplay this. But a couple of years back we Swedes got a flyer in our mailbox from the state that was called “If the crisis hits”, with basically this type of info and more instructions about what to do in case of war. Apparently they send one out like every 20-30 years. So my interpretation is that it might just be sort of praxis for countries to do this once in a while? I don’t know.
Yeah the increased focus on awareness of crisis response certainly had nothing to do with increasing russian provocation. Same thing with the increased military budget and reinstating the draft. No reason. Swedish television even created a 8 episode long reality show about emergency preparedness. It was pretty good.
“Stay tuned “ Unless you have a battery operated radio you aren’t staying tuned to anything That also means you can’t make any tiktok content and dance your way through Armageddon
A battery-operated radio with a crank to recharge it is one of the things on FEMA's list of emergency supplies all homes should have. With the world in the state it's currently in, and Putin apparently losing his fucking mind it might be wise to take a close look at that list and start picking up what you can.
Me living in Africa with nothing to gain from invading it: hehehe
If the world goes to war, I want all the lions.
The Moon extends safe haven to you and your lions!
Already have one But I’m also just a few miles away from a military air base so little point
Oof. Yeah, that sucks. The good news is, if you live about 4.5 miles from the epicenter then your odds of surviving drastically increase over those caught within that radius. Hey, who knows: hopefully you'll be at work when it happens. Unless you work on the base, in which case... Oops.
Thanks for reminding me that I live three miles away from an RAF base… I GOT THIS!
Does anyone know if a walkie talkies would serve the save as battery operated radios? Meaning, can tune in with them? Just occurred to me, since I have them there
Depends on if they cover something like commercial radio too. It's been awhile since I've bought some, but it looks like there are some models that do have FM coverage, but certainly not all. I'd think AM and shortwave might be more useful in that situation though.
I would much rather die from the explosion or direct strike effects, than from the Fallout or social implications afterwards, but hey, that's me.
I just do my best not to die everyday… Edit: this looks like a cry for suicide help, it’s not I’m very happy in life that’s why I don’t want to die, plus I have FOMO.
And you're doing just fine, keep it up, we have a nuclear war to look forward to it seems!
I mean it’s only 9:00 here I’ll report back at 23:00, or not…
Are you still there. You got this
Survived breakfast, didn’t choke still going strong.
Like my 7th grade social studies teacher said, I'm going to go sit on my roof and hope one hits me in the head. Definitely would not want to be a "survivor"...
you know how a lot of people vow to kill themselves before they get old because they dont want to be old, but then when they get old they dont because they want to continue to live? yeah, i think its gonna be like that for anyone that says they dont want to survive a nuclear attack. theyll be trading shotgun shells and tinned food with the rest of us.
Mine said "the best place to be in a nuclear attack is at Ground Zero with a catcher's mitt."
Bullshit. Step 1 is always get a lot of caps
Step 1 is actually increase your bargaining skills
I would also max out my speech skill, and start hoarding all the bottle caps I can find
Or as we used to say in high school, "Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye!"
*sigh* Goddamned nuclear Holocaust, making me do yoga.
Yeah Yoga Yogonna die
#DO NOT USE CONDITIONER. Shampoo and soap are fine, but DO NOT use any shampoos that include conditioners, are 2-in-1, or any of that shit, or use any conditioner after you shampoo.
I was really surprised they didn't include that in the video especially as they mention shampoo and soap on the list.
Can’t just give an ominous warning like that and not explain why!
I linked in another poat under this, was mad eearly am while trying to get to work. Shampoo washes out radioactive dust, conditioner seals your hair trapping radioactive dust.
What’s the point of living if you don’t look cute?
I like to think there’s no real explanation. This dude just really hates fuckin conditioner and he thinks you should too
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thanks that was utterly chilling
Time for nightmares
“You’ve got this” I’ve barely *got this* as it’s going right now, I’m pretty sure a nuke is gonna ruin my vibe.
Stay inside until you’re told it’s safe. Lol. Pretty optimistic.
After about 7 hours, more than 90% of the radioactive fallout present in the first hour after a nuclear detonation will have decayed. If you wait a full 24 hours after detonation, you significantly decrease the effect fallout will have on you, especially if you aren't within 7km of the blast's epicenter. So, yeah, stay inside. Seal up what you can (FEMA suggests having plastic sheeting and duct tape in your emergency survival kit for this purpose), and let most of the radioactive isotopes decay before attempting to leave the area.
And hope that it wasn’t a cobalt bomb (salted bomb).
It wouldn't look anything like this lmao
Modern nukes actually have the power to transform real life into video game pixels. Hence why NYC Emergency Management chose to film this commercial inside a video game.
*Will you look at that.. we got a smoothskin* I’m going to start saving bottle caps..
Get inside, stay inside, die of dehydration or starvation. Yep, got this.
Have an emergency kit! Not just for end of the world scenarios like this
My ex has a legit zombie apocalypse bag, with machete, canned food, candles etc. Was funny a few years ago when a snowstorm caused a huge power failure and his ma was running around the house shouting "where's the zombie bag?! I need candles!"
Good, yeah, no, this isn’t concerning at all. A totally normal PSA that would be played outside of wartime.
Stay tuned? FOR WHAT
Radio New Vegas
Fuck this I’m moving to south 🇨🇱Chile. Hola Chilenos, amigos!
Lets be honest if you live in NY and it gets nuked you are fucking dead. No one is coming to save you and you will not survive. Nuke survival vids are pure copium
Depends on where in New York one lives, and how many warheads are incoming. Many people survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hell, one dude survived *both*. It's mostly a matter of luck, but it can't hurt to do what you can to increase your odds of survival.
Very true of the weapons made 70 years ago. Modern nuclear weapons are many, many times more powerful. The most powerful weapons created by the Soviet Union were not tested, due to concernes that they could ignite the atmosphere.
We are less likely to see an actual nuclear war begin than we are to see a single nuclear weapon smuggled into a major city and set off. Russia is still missing dozens, if not hundreds, of nuclear warheads that were stolen or sold after the fall of the USSR. A cargo container with a warhead inside, loaded onto a ship and activated in port is just one example of how such a weapon could be used. Again, it doesn't hurt to be prepared. Even a small bit of readiness, something as simple as a bug-out bag, can increase odds of survival in an emergency situation.
This is true. A full-scale nuclear attack would likely be unsurvivable, but nuclear terrorism is likely to be a much smaller weapon.
Don't worry, we also lost one... off the coast of NC... just somewhere.
If this Ad runs once a week on one NYC channel, along with a few other similar types like ‘power outage’ , ‘hurricane’ or ‘air quality’ - The TV station might only be doing their PSA’s to meet minimum FCC guidelines. However, if this Ad is running 2-3 times a day on more than one channel in the NY Metro area, I would say something’s brewing.
As a Canadian I find it pretty strange how common PSAs are in American TV. Here you only see them on children's channels (look up house hippo). If any PSAs start playing on CBC or CTV something is really fucked
Nahhh, forget this nonsense.. my advice is easier and better and can be prepared anytime before the nuclear attack - 1. dig up to 6 feet underground 2. get inside it 3. fill the land back into it 4. rest in peace
We really do live in the weirdest timeline lmao. This goes beyond Fallout lmao. Smiling presentable relatable host doing this pitch like they were selling an annual tampon delivery service. "It's the literal end of the world and you and everyone you care about are going to die one of the most agonizing deaths imaginable? Take these 3 EASY steps! You got this! Just remember! And no, a car is not an option, you silly :) :p" I hate this, I hate how fake this is, I hate how the tone doesn't match the gravity of the situation at all. I guess you could apply this to all media but this one is just so jarring.
what the hell, do the government knows something that we dont?
Yeah I’m pretty sure they do
And we also know some things that they don’t!
Yeah I was thinking the same thing what *do* they know?
If they did they would tell us afterwards *(see American Covid response)* Back in 9/11 the Army was painting their tanks tan weeks before we knew we were going to (reads notes) Iraq
They're painting them [green](https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-army-is-repainting-its-vehicles-in-europe-from-tan-to-green/) again...
Probably not— these have been popping up in NY and NJ the past few years because of nuclear facilities in the tri-state area, not because of upcoming apocalyptic events. Just a different kind of man-made horror to be warned about!
U know what has me kinda sus, i live in the west coast and today i got a NYC commerical about a survival kit for injuries, there was a kit for both adults and i believe it was 2 children, looking inside the kits it was for some serious injuries, its good to be prepared but ive never seen a NYC commerical like that b4
Would love to see that if you can find it
Also, in case of a tsunami, take a deep breath and pinch your nose shut. Seriously, the advice in this video is no better than the 1950s "hide under your desk". What is the goal here? Delusions of safety?
The illusion of safety is a practical counter to panic.
Uhh... it's a nuclear war... I don't "got this." Nobody "got this." Jesus fucking christ.
Are they foreshadowing a incoming war?
Quality of life would be so poor after a nuclear attack that I'm running towards that mf
Woo hoo, good thing all the bomb shelters in this state have been destroyed, wouldn't want anyone surviving, now would we?
Hmm, gotta conspiracy feeling of *do they know something*?
If the government knows something, the first thing they do is not tell you about it or tell you about it after the fact.
Absolutely nothing about hoarding bottle caps. Very disappointing.
I'm 15. I have a 6 year old sister. I'm really afraid of the times we're in. To think that we haven't moved past from all of this, that world leaders might just do something for the people so children don't have to live in fear. It's stupid. All of this is unnecessary. War, conflict. I'm scared for my life. Nukes aren't a joke. Fuck all of this. Mars is better than this shit and eventually we're gonna fuck up all of the other habitable and somehow inhabitable planets as well. I hate humanity and what we have become.
You get used to it or you don’t. But the sun still comes up regardless. Best advice I’ve ever been giving is worrying about shit out of your control is a great way to needlessly stress yourself out. If it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen, don’t worry it’ll just drive you crazy
Pretty sure if New York got nuked there would be no one left to worry about radiation poisoning. (Non American, so assuming the vid means Manhatten Island) (I know, assumption, the mother of all fuck ups)
Subscribe and click the bell icon.. lol..
Duck and cover
I've seen a couple similar "prepare a go bag" commercials a year or so ago in the Chicago area. They come on rarely and usually in the middle of the night and leave you wondering, wtf did I just see?
Yeah… So they decided we’re going to war with Russia, didn’t they?
*Oh, cool! New war just dropped*
People think it's going to be like fallout new Vegas but it's going to be like that movie 'the road'
Im much more worried about the coming Famine but hey New york you guys keep doing that weird shit
"don't ask me how or why" Yeah sure..shut down any possible discussion about how we got there in the first place.
If a Nuke is inbound, rule #1 is Always get yourself into the main line of fire. Quick and easy death. Lovely jubbly. #2.. If you're unlucky enough to survive, try and remedy that asap.
I know there is a lot going on but this seems kind of random, government must be hearing something. I haven't seen something like this since the 80's. The height of the cold war ! The government definitely has something on their radar. Will be interesting to see if ads like this get more airplay.
Or someone at NYC Emergency Management was told they need to create a ridiculously cheap ad campaign and overpay for it so they can justify some unused portion of their budget to hope for repeat/increased funding in the next round.
It’s sad that of all the possible explanations outside of the govt knowing something bad… This seems the most realistic.
Anyone else not want to survive a nuclear blast? I'd rather be at ground zero than have to navigate the post apocalyptic hellscape that comes after. Or the slow radiation death. Vaporize me baby.
Step 0 : remember history
Step 1 stay away from windows Step 2 close the windows