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Wonder if this will come up over lunch with Pootey Poot? It should, if England is truly still our ally. But it won't, 'cause they aren't.
chillfactor
(7,566 posts)Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)It only a matter of time. All these people 'improving' was pure bullshit...don't know why such things were said. The Russian killed English citizen on their own soil.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)So it's a bizarre claim to make, considering both Skripals survived poisoning.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)"He added: In terms of their effect on the body, they interfere with the nervous system, rendering the parts affected inoperable thus the uncontrollable muscle spasms, the difficulty breathing the nervous system tells these muscles when and how to move, and interfering in this causes the spasms. The effects of the nervous agent can only be removed with an antidote given in time, or irreparable damage will be done.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... can say it wasn't them
Initech
(99,915 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)July 9 (UPI) -- Police are opening a murder investigation after Dawn Sturgess died from exposure to a Russian nerve agent eight days after touching it.
Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, were poisoned eight days ago by the same Soviet-era nerve agent that afflicted former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter, Yulia, in March.
Sturgess is the first person to die after coming in contact with the Russian nerve agent.
Rowley remains in critical condition.
In both poisoning instances, the agent believed to have been used is a Novichok agent, a substance developed by the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
British police are treating the 44-year-old woman's death as murder, the Telegraph reported, referring to it as "the day we hoped would never come."
More: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/07/09/British-woman-poisoned-by-Soviet-era-nerve-agent-dies/7751531130590/?utm_source=upi&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=3
Authorities have opened a probe into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died eight days after being poisoned. Photo by Rick Findler/EPA-EFE
Cha
(295,929 posts)I wonder where on Earth they touched it.. maybe Charlie Rowley can say if he gets better?
How incredibly, horribly tragic for them, their loved ones, and the communities across England
Dawn Sturgess
Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)And yet Trump is planning to meet with this killer.
Cha
(295,929 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)And that's a good way of describing it! I have often thought that if this was a movie, it would just be too unbelievable! I caught a couple of Twilight Zones over the weekend and they seemed tame compared to what's really going on now!
Cha
(295,929 posts)never have imagined this
Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)I can't tell you how often my stomach wrenches these days, I often change the channel.
Even Rod Serling couldn't have dreamed this current plot line up. BTW, I saw him in person once. He was a small tan man in a bright red sweater. His daughter went to my summer camp. But she was older and I didn't really know her. I remember that she was mainly interested in horses.
Cha
(295,929 posts)Imagine that if you will.. a Twilight Zone Connection
We talked about this before awhile ago.. He and his students from the University of Florida came into a really nice Italian Restaurant where I was working and I waited on them.. he was sooo Nice and Funny. And, generous.. he left me $50 bucks!
And, he was tan! And, I just looked up his height 5'4".. I didn't remember the short part.. but he was sitting down.. mostly. I got his autograph for the Hostess. I was joking with him.. saying.. ".. I don't know who you are but the hostess asked for your autograph"
Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)And now I remember! You actually had a conversation!
He does sound like a nice guy, all I did was see him. And you're right, he was quite small, but you couldn't help but notice him, He did seem like a normal Dad though I remember him getting special attention. He and his wife came for the camp horse show and I had some suspicions when his daughter won the class that I was also in. She seemed okay, just not particularly outgoing and she was only there for one summer, the year her age group went to Ireland to ride. The camp sent a group every summer. It's nice to know she had regular parents - who cared enough to come and see her ride in a camp horse show.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Novicok is a very, very persistent nerve agent, that is to say it remains deadly for a long, long time.
Most nerve agents begin breaking down as soon as they are released, and a few hours to days later there is no risk. The Soviets had written into thier doctrine for major military conflict a very aggressive use of chemical weapons as a way of countering the technological advantages of the NATO states. Agents like this were developed with the intent to be used against key facilities like ports and airfields to render them unusable by NATO forced long term to prevent US resupply and reinforcement of Europe while not destroying the physical assets, so once captured they could eventually be decontaminated and used.
Odds are this was left over from the previous attack and they were the first people unlucky enough to touch it.
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)You have the roles FUCKING REVERSED.