There’s a contradiction between this:
>If you believe in this community, you should believe in its ability to make its own decisions.
and these:
>Diverse communities are typically much better at accurately analysing …
>The EA community is notoriously homogenous, and the “average EA” is extremely easy to imagine: he is a white male in his twenties or thirties from
I’m all for transparency, but it’s not clear to me that normal “democracy” if it means “equal voting from the current EA constituency” is likely to make an improvement: as with some primary voting systems, it may lead to an even more narrow leadership culture.
A diverse representative “council” might be better, or something like citizen’s juries and people’s assemblies. Holocracy and Sociocracy would be well worth looking at, along with systemic concensing for ‘minor’ or ‘low consequence’ or short term decisions.
Participatory Learning and Action, participatory budgeting and participatory video are also very useful.
NB It’s iodide, not iodine (potassium iodide, KI) and it MUST be pharmaceutical grade, NOT photo grade. If you see someone dosing out Lugol’s iodine to kids, politely take it off them and use it for wounds or sterilising fruit/veg.
If you don’t have tablets, but do have pharmaceutical grade KI powder, you need a very accurate balance to weight the correct dose for children, something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RZR5HYF
Buy it now. In an emergency, deliveries may be problematic.
Some other resources, which might be useful in other continents:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radiation-emergencies-information-for-the-public/what-to-do-in-a-radiation-emergency#iodine
https://www.ready.gov/radiation
This is old, but has some good content:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA328301.pdf