Ca. 20 years ago, at lunchtime all the students in my elementary school were summoned to the school doctor. The adults were panicking about some Soviet power plant and we were forbidden to leave school. But who cares… so I went to my grandma to eat something. My grandma was also kind of panicky, so she ordered me (now satiated) back to school, where I got my share of the Lugol’s Solution. The following summer, the sorrel grew really gigantic, and looked delicious. There was also an abundance of beautiful mushrooms that nobody dared to eat…

And now, 20 years after the Chernobyl meltdown, I learnt that here in Bavaria they have even seen no reason to keep children from playing outside! In Poland half the population was administered Lugol’s Solution. This difference in approach is kind of strange. It’s just ca. 400 kilometers…