Sarin, Sarin-like or Chlorine?

[Workingman]

Because if we are being played, then it is going to be our troops in the firing line.

If today's news is anything to go by that could well be the case.

The US fires off 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base "believed'' to be where the planes took off from.

The UK "fully supports" that action.

Polls suggest that 51% of us support UK military intervention.

Meanwhile there is no independent evidence of what the "gas" actually was. Those who are treating the victims are not sure, and have said so.
The only positive identification of it being Sarin has come from the Syrian rebels who hold the area and they could not possibly have an agenda: could they?

We aren't getting news of the Syria conflict, we are getting straight propaganda imo.

And dangerous propaganda, if the polls are to be believed.

[Suff]

My problem exactly WM. Sarin is totally lethal, designed to kill troops in the battlefield who have protection against it. Unprotected civilians should have dropped like flies and there should have been almost no survivors amongst those who were hit.

Interestingly it is thought that two women were used to kill Kim Jon-nam because they used two parts of a binary weapon which only became active when the two came into contact on his face.

It took him 20 minutes to die even though the weapon had to chemically react after the second dose even though he was in hospital and they were trying everything they could. This is the lethality of modern chemical weapons.

There is only one known cure for Sarin, or Nerve agents in general. Massive doses of Atropine, which the victim then needs to be weaned off afterwards. Both Sarin and VX do what fly killer does to flies, it pushes the nervous system to over fire until the body goes into massive arrest. Atropine damps down the nervous system, so much so that large doses will kill if the nervous system is not over firing.

If large numbers of people are surviving but impacted and they are unsure that Sarin has been used, then it is very unlikely to be Sarin because it is simply too lethal and the impacts of nerve agent are far too well documented to be ambiguous.

I have a doubt.