No, Belle Marduk: the salt spray has tiny traces of iodide in it, which replaces that washed away
by the rain. It is picked up in crops, the drinking water and possibly other places where it can be
taken in by people. It takes such tiny amounts, that my chem prof in med school could not do
research on iodine metabolism in a room about fifty years old, because someone had used iodine
in experients in his spaces over twenty five years previously, and it had penetrated into walls,
ceilings, and floor in a way it could not be removed, but still contaminated his experiments.

It is because iodized salt is so cheap that the idea of twenty million people being brain damaged
for lack of penny's worth of iodized salt is so totally unacceptable.