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08-24-2019, 07:21 AM | #21 | ||
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Land of Enchantment
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Re: [AtE] Abandoned medical equipment, and the problems that they can present.
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Then there's stuff like this, so you don't even need the cosmoline. And even guns that you'd think were hopeless can usually be restored easily. The most advanced tool this guy uses to get the gun functional by the 3:00-mark (except for the bullet stuck in the barrel) is a car battery. I have shot hundred-year-old ammunition for Pete's sake. A lot of AtE players and GMs sort of emotionally want there to be no guns around so that they can fight with spiked bats and crowbars and guitar-swords and whatnot. Which, awesome, do what you want. But don't be silly and try to say that it is "realistic". Khyber pass gunsmiths make AKMs by hand. A gun laying in a roofless abandoned building, or out in the open on some old battlefield, is obviously another matter. Quote:
But otherwise folks are correct that most medications are fine MUCH longer than the listed expiration date. The US military had a program called SLEP (service-life extension program) that listed more realistic expiration dates for many medications, because they had to stockpile them for use and it was too expensive to replace 100% of stocks over and over when they expired. Most medications just get less effective over time, but a very few get actually dangerous to use. All of that being said, I'm a doctor not a pharmacist. Take it with a grain of salt. For medications that might get stockpiled by FEMA or aid agencies see the WHO Essential Medications List. It's worth noting that the list tried to have meds with good un-refrigerated shelf-lives when possible.
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I'd need to get a grant and go shoot a thousand goats to figure it out. Last edited by acrosome; 08-24-2019 at 08:17 AM. |
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