What does the reading on a Geiger meter equate to in physical effects?

Question

I know 0.2 isn’t very worrisome but 1.5 is. What is the difference in the physical effects between these readings and readings 2.0+?

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Answer 1

Apropos of nothing, when I was in university, I worked a job driving radioactive waste generated by the labs around. We had a lot of fun playing with the counter and discovering latent radioactivity in lots of things, like bricks, eg.