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Title: Chemical watchdog confirms ex-spy, daughter were poisoned with 'high purity' nerve agent
Category: World
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2018-04-12 07:50:19

[DrCaleb]

Straight from the UN Report:

https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw- ... d-kingdom/

[BartSimpson]

Yeah, still not buying it.

Novichok class nerve agents are at least eighty times more lethal than VX nerve agents yet the Skirpals are both alive? And look at the picture in the link. There's two bunny suits maybe thirty meters away from press and public.

Let me rephrase that last bit: There's a bunch of press and public standing about thirty meters away from a purported high concentration of one of the world's deadliest substances and none of them are dead.

This whole thing is just bullshit.

[BeaverFever]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Yeah, still not buying it.

Novichok class nerve agents are at least eighty times more lethal than VX nerve agents yet the Skirpals are both alive? And look at the picture in the link. There's two bunny suits maybe thirty meters away from press and public.

Let me rephrase that last bit: There's a bunch of press and public standing about thirty meters away from a purported high concentration of one of the world's deadliest substances and none of them are dead.

This whole thing is just bullshit.

Well I think you’re exaggerating/misunderstanding the dose because they said the victims came into contact with the toxin after someone applied it to their doorknob. That sounds like it doesn’t automatically kill anything from 30 metres away. The attacker probably only used a few drops.

But Putin appreciates your efforts.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Novichok class nerve agents are at least eighty times more lethal than VX nerve agents yet the Skirpals are both alive? And look at the picture in the link. There's two bunny suits maybe thirty meters away from press and public.

VX was used in a busy airport, yet the only fatality was the person who had it smeared in his face.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Novichok class nerve agents are at least eighty times more lethal than VX nerve agents yet the Skirpals are both alive? And look at the picture in the link. There's two bunny suits maybe thirty meters away from press and public.

VX was used in a busy airport, yet the only fatality was the person who had it smeared in his face.

You're almost there to see what I'm seeing.

VX is not as lethal as Novichok. Yet VX killed Lil' Kim's brother.

The Skirpals had direct skin contact with Novichuk yet they're still alive?

A drop of that shit smaller than the period at the end of this sentence is 100% lethal.

Yet from what I've been able to fathom they were exposed to at least .5ml of it.

Uh-huh.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Novichok class nerve agents are at least eighty times more lethal than VX nerve agents yet the Skirpals are both alive? And look at the picture in the link. There's two bunny suits maybe thirty meters away from press and public.

VX was used in a busy airport, yet the only fatality was the person who had it smeared in his face.

You're almost there to see what I'm seeing.

VX is not as lethal as Novichok. Yet VX killed Lil' Kim's brother.

The Skirpals had direct skin contact with Novichuk yet they're still alive?

A drop of that shit smaller than the period at the end of this sentence is 100% lethal.

Yet from what I've been able to fathom they were exposed to at least .5ml of it.

Uh-huh.

I understand where you are going, but also take note Kim Jung Nam did not get the immediate treatment the Skirpal's did. Nerve agents don't work the same way that poisons do. They can be counteracted very quickly.

But that doesn't mean the Skirpal's are getting off scot free.

$1:

Scientists at the Moscow lab told the story of one man who was exposed to Novichok No. 5 in 1987.

He was a physicist at the lab, and one day the ventilator broke down in the room where he was working.

He staggered out of the room, his vision seared by brilliant colors and hallucinations. He collapsed, and the KGB took him to a hospital.

By the time he arrived his breathing was labored. In another hour, his heart would have stopped. His entire nervous system was gradually ceasing to function.

The physicist was lucky. The hospital he was taken to, the Sklifosovsky Institute, includes the nation's top center for poison treatment.

But the scientist was at the edge of death, unaware of his surroundings, for 10 days. He couldn't walk for six months. He was dogged by depression and an inability to concentrate. He found it difficult even to read. To this day his arms are still weak, and he has never been able to return to work.

Although he survived, the gas left him with permanent disabilities.

Dr. Vedernikov said that saving one man, though difficult, was not impossible. But if a nerve gas were used on a battlefield, he said, there would be thousands of casualties.

"I would be too late with everyone. If I were right there, I could help one or two. After an hour, everyone else would be in an acute state. All I could do would be to forgive their sins."

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-1 ... ve-gases/3

[BartSimpson]

Dr. Caleb,

From your article:

$1:

The physicist was lucky. The hospital he was taken to, the Sklifosovsky Institute, includes the nation's top center for poison treatment.

The Skirpals were taken to the Salisbury District Hospital.

It's a nice place according to Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury ... t_Hospital

But it lacks a poison unit.

Yet somehow they immediately diagnosed Novichuk exposure and performed a complex series of treatments? I say that because mere atropine isn't going to do much against the variants of Novichuk that were specifically designed to make standard atropine treatments futile.

Seriously, how is a nice but typical NHS hospital going to perform on par with a Russian specialty hospital that knew exactly what they were dealing with from the outset?

It doesn't make sense.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Yet somehow they immediately diagnosed Novichuk exposure and performed a complex series of treatments? I say that because mere atropine isn't going to do much against the variants of Novichuk that were specifically designed to make standard atropine treatments futile.

Seriously, how is a nice but typical NHS hospital going to perform on par with a Russian specialty hospital that knew exactly what they were dealing with from the outset?

It doesn't make sense.

Atrophine is used for the initial treatment, and once the agent is identified, others are used. The person will eventually recover, but often not fully.

$1:

Treatment for sarin and VX exposure involves giving atropine to block the effects of acetylcholine, pralidoxime to restore the activity of the acetylcholinesterase enzyme, and diazepam to stop convulsions. Ventilation is often required to help victims breathe.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... i-skripal/

Like I've read in other articles, no one really knows what recovery from Novockok will be like, but the body eventually will eliminate the agent if things like Atrophine are given quickly to prevent death. But like the Soviet chemist, it will be a hard road and 100% recovery isn't likely.