@ihcalaM: You seem to know absolutely nothing about them mate – considering that Novichok is reputed to be a group of nerve agents that are more potent and lethal than VX or sarin.
Yet these two apparently poisoned people are alive and well

@Denis White: Why would the Russian government ever assassinate or attempt to kill their opponents? Ha. Have you been paying attention to their actions throughout modern history?

Newsflash. They benefitted from this. It projected Russian power, it deepened divisions between the West and Russia (which Putin thrives on – a man in need of legitimacy) and re-enforced what any potential Russian defectors already knew about Russian response to ‘traitors’, no matter where they are.

@Pearse Mc Mullen: I work in chemistry, specifically in drugs.

I’m fairly sure you haven’t the slightest clue about the variables in pharmacokinetics involved with acetylcholinesterase inhibitor poisoning.

I’ve already provided multiple cases in the past where otherwise deadly AChEi poisonings have resulted in a full recovery, despite incredibly high doses – due to rapid and expert treatment. I can provide them again, but I doubt you’ll be interested. Facts are tough.

@ihcalaM: LMFAO!

You work in Chemistry……must be a kids set you picked up when you were a young lad,
I wouldn`t believe a word out of your mouth,
If the greatest Scientists in the world are saying it is one of the most deadly nerve agents, that is good enough for me,

Rapid treatment – they were exposed for over 4 HOURS according to the reports,
NO ONE would survive exposure to Novichok after that long.

PS.
Moscow pointed out that UK authorities themselves admitted that their lab in Porton Down was in possession of the nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals

@Pearse Mc Mullen: Ah Pearse. God bless, you haven’t a clue.

It could be the most deadly nerve agent in the world by a million miles, but if you only absorb a millionth of the dose, it doesn’t matter about the extra potency.

The method of administration and formulation of the drug contributed to an immense amount of uncertainty about how much AChEi was absorbed by the victims in the attack.

But I’m talking to a brick wall here, clearly.

@ihcalaM: i have a feeling you are talking crap. But whatever, please explain to us minnions how the hospital initially released a statement daying they were treating the victims for a highly potent hallucinogenic drug overdose and then hours later saud they were poisoned by the most toxic agent known to man and yet both victims survived.

@Denis White: The Lord you praise, would this be the same one who allowed them to be poisoned in the first place? You also appear to have overlooked the incredible amount of expert medical attention they’ve received, and will probably continue receiving for a considerable time. It was entirely down to human intervention that they lived, no miracle there.

@Cal Mooney: I’ll stop you there. The hospital never mentioned a single thing about a “highly potent hallucinogenic drug overdose”.

@ihcalaM: In their advice, Public Health England stated that people who had visited those places in Salisbury, where traces of a military grade nerve agent had apparently been found, should wash their clothes and:

“Wipe personal items such as phones, handbags and other electronic items with cleansing or baby wipes and dispose of the wipes in the bin (ordinary domestic waste disposal).”

Are baby wipes acknowledged to be an effective and safe method of dealing with objects that may potentially have been contaminated with “military grade nerve agent”, especially of a type 5-8 times more deadly than VX?

Initial reports suggested that Detective Sergeant Bailey became ill after coming into contact with the substance after attending the Skripals on the bench they were seated on in The Maltings in Salisbury. Subsequent claims, however, first aired by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Ian Blair on 9th March, said that he came into contact with the substance at Sergei Skripal’s house in Christie Miller Road. Reports since then have been highly ambiguous about what should be an easily verifiable fact. Which is the correct account?

Care to have a go at answering either of these two questions , seeing as you are obviously an expert on this case mate?

@Pearse Mc Mullen:

Washing their possessions with baby wipes as a precaution is a perfectly fine idea. Why wouldn’t it be? It wasn’t claimed that this would ‘decontaminate’ anything, just that it would reduce their risk of exposure (which was “very low” to start with, according to PHE).

Why is the idea of washing down/removing potentially toxic particulate matter from your posessions astonishing to you (or to the person who you copied those paragraphs from)? Nerve agents are made of moveable molecules just like everything else. Or is that being disputed now? It wouldn’t surprise me.

@Denis White: your qualifications for your pronouncements on nerve agents are…..

@ihcalaM: you can try and stop me right there all you want. https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bbc-russian-spy-salisbury-ill-1301217
This news article printed 6 hours after the incident, the police were saying there was no risk to the public. If this was a real novichok attack, they would have immediately released a warning to everyone to stay out of the area.

@Cal Mooney: Cal, where does that article mention a single thing about a hallucinogenic drug overdose? That’s what you claimed the hospital were saying it was.

That is a lie.

@Boyne Sharky:
They were released from hospital
Don’t think they will be needing much more medical attention

Look mate it’s all a game and you bought into it .

Russia saved our asses in WW2
Just to remind you

@ianglen: its her home

@Dermot Lane:

What about the US and British dictators

You love them right

@Pearse Mc Mullen: Are you seriously telling me that you believe she’s being forced to say these things at gunpoint?

Pearse. Seriously.

@ihcalaM: you are the one that mentioned gunpoint – no one else you absolute Numpty you.
Seriously.

@Pearse Mc Mullen: Right. So what exactly does she need to do for you to believe she’s not being forced to say this?

Turn up at your house with a Putin escort? I’m interested.

First, people like yourself were in disbelief because her messages were coming “through the police” and that we couldn’t see her. Now you’re just making up more vague excuses after that fell apart.

@ihcalaM: point out my vague excuses,
Oh! That`s right , you can`t as i haven`t made any,
It`s NOT my story falling apart, it is yours and the British Governments lad.

@Pearse Mc Mullen: so who do u think tried to kill her and her father or what do u think happened

@Pearse Mc Mullen: Right. So what happened to the narrative that she was being held against her will and that the police were writing her statements for her? It seems to me like that story has fallen apart.

“The text has been composed in a special way so as to support official statements made by British authorities and at the same time to exclude every possibility of Yulia’s contacts with the outer world – consuls, journalists and even relatives” – the Russian Foreign Ministry.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1HI30V

@ihcalaM: seems to you that no matter the facts, you will cast assertions alongside Mick Jordan that the Russians poisined them on Putins orders. Give it up, neither of them were poisoned with the deadliest nerve agent known to man. This whole thing was invented by perverse sick minds in the british intelligence services. They messed it up. The hospital staff are the heroes for not allowing MI5 finish the job.

@Pearse Mc Mullen: dont think they are

@Mick Jordan: Care to put up or shut up there Mick??

@Mick Jordan: I mean she has family and a boyfriend still living in Russia, does she condemn putin and risk more problems for her family

@johnp: pretty obvious she us saying to Russia, the brits wont let me go home. She wants to go back. If she was afriad, there is no way she would have said it. She is one lucky girl that she managed to make that sneek call to her cousin or she would be pushing up daisies now alongside her father.

@Cal Mooney: pretty obvious to you, most normal people though not so much