Claudia de Breij is trying to get iodine tablets now that Vladimir Putin has threatened nuclear war. She tried to buy them at the drugstore, but couldn’t.
The derailed Russian president Vladimir Putin has threatened to get his nuclear weapons out of the stable, which is causing a lot of unrest among well-known Dutch people. Many people think that iodine tablets help if a nuclear bomb falls on the Netherlands. That is why Georgina Verbaan has already put them ready in her kitchen drawer.
Claudia makes a mistake
Claudia de Breij now also wants those pills, but makes a mistake. She went to the drugstore for it. She felt a little embarrassed when she asked. “The girl behind the register looked at me so expectantly that I felt something from the past. Like I was going to ask for condoms, or for a pregnancy test. That’s how it felt, shame from long ago.”
The comedian tried to score those iodine tablets between nose and lips. “I started cowardly about the paracetamol I needed and the cough drops. Then I gathered my courage and casually tried, ‘Oh yes, and maybe you have iodine tablets too?’” she writes in the VARAguide†
Putin’s attack
The war language from Russia makes Claudia restless. “Somehow I still didn’t want to believe that threat of a nuclear attack from Putin. But yeah. I had just googled why that was smart again, those iodine tablets.”
Well, not smart at all, Lars Roobol of RIVM recently said. “When an atomic bomb explodes, much less iodine is released than an accident with a nuclear power plant. Certainly if it explodes far away (as far as we receive a dose of iodine) there is no cause for concern.”
Iodine
And if the bomb falls on Amsterdam, where all celebrities live next to each other? “Then you’re not there anymore, you can’t worry about iodine either.”