FAKE E-MAIL IN FULL
BBC Flash news : Japan Government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima nuclear plants. Asian countries should take necessary precautions. If rain comes, remain indoors first 24 hours. Close doors and windows. Swab neck skin with betadine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid first. Take extra precautions. Radiation may hit Philippine at around 4 pm today. If it rains today or in the next few days in Hong Kong. Do not go under the rain. If you get caught out, use an umbrella or raincoat, even if it is only a drizzle. Radioactive particles, which may cause burns, alopecia or even cancer, may be in the rain.
Some media reported that not only fake e-mails but also fake SMS, facebook, and malwares influence people life. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned the computer users to consider all stuff in the Internet or any communication which is regarding to the earthquake and tsunami crisis in Japan because they are unreliable. According to the Japan officials said the danger zone should be warned is the area within 30 km around there for staying indoors.
I think there are two points of fake rumours. First, people would like to prevent and protect themselves from radiation. Besides, they also worry about people in other countries, they spread the fake messages then. In spite of, they are not sure about the rumours they released. On the other hand, the second point is playing joke. For children and teenagers, the fake news usually happen many time for a while. Some believe but some know it's just a joke. In this case, I disagree with it because people feel worried about this situation that may cause anxiety or depression in some group of people. Although it's just the joke , it can make people feelig get worse and scared. Then, it's very difficult to live with happiness. For example, if it rains, everyone is afraid to go outside despite there is nothing dangerous.
I think that when people are facing any emergency incidence, they tend to be irrational as they are quite panic and uninformed. On the other hand, if the people are always thoughtful, sensibly consider everything altogether, they would be more immune to any rumor that seems nonsensical. Let's consider, if the radiation which just leak in Japan can cause distant countries harmful, tons of people in Asia would all die out when Japan was attacked by two big atomic bombs in World War II. As such atomic bombs were intended to explode the radiation with relation to their destructive power, their radiation should be much more intense than atomic reactors which are controlled by high security measures. Also, most of people quite do not understand about what occurring. If you have a free time, I would suggest this clip [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bcrLiATLq0&feature=player_embedded#at=336] as a possible explanation for the radiation issue to make you all well informed.
ReplyDeleteI heard that rumor about the contaminated rain also.And in my view, I think it's a thing that people should be concern about even though there're small amount in it. Because for now 3 nuclear plants already exploded and the other ones the researchers predict that they would explode like other 3 soon.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when I get forwarded emails, usually from the well meaning people with good intentions that Milk mentioned in her post.
ReplyDeleteI think that people have an obligation to check and verify that something is true before mindlessly forwarding an email to others.
And emails that some idiot has forwarded to me because they were told it would be bad luck to break the chain, or because it would bring them good luck tend to get a response from me. Not the response they might have been hoping for.
However well intentioned, I think they are just spam, and often they are not well intentioned.
Although the radiation problem in Japan is certainly very serious for those in the area, I don't think it's anything that we need to worry about at the moment, and is very unlikely to become so serious that Thailand would ever be at any real risk.
ReplyDeleteThe reactors where there have been explosions did release some radiation, but very little, and it is highly localised.
Nonetheless, it is worrying and I am following this on the news.