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"We've been very busy. Unusually busy, I'd say," Orr told WWJ's Sandra McNeill. "It's definitely an increase, just in selling all the normal prepper stuff, end of the world stuff. A lot of water prep stuff, food, MREs - the military meals."
And there's been a substantial increase in the sale of a particular item they don't sell much of - a so-called radiation antidote called potassium iodide.
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"It actually stops your thyroid from absorbing any radiation. So, it fills your thyroid with iodine, which it normally does anyways," said Orr.
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Another popular request: gas masks. But most people looking for those will be out of luck.
"Gas masks are a big thing too, but we only sell them as novelty," said Orr.
- Google's political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
- This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed.
- The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.
- Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership.
- Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.
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