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"Then something really bizare happened. Refuges had started to stream into different cities. And for some strange reason, they were shunned. Others somehow thou
by rsync 11y ago
"Then something really bizare happened. Refuges had started to stream into different cities. And for some strange reason, they were shunned. Others somehow thought these survivors were contaminated, cursed, builty or what have you. So instead of being embraced and helped, they found themselves trying to hide who they are and where they came from."
There is an excellent book that tackles this very subject named "All that is Solid Melts Into Air" by Darragh McKeon. I highly recommend the book and it's not too long - 200 pages give or take.
It chronicles a bit of the disaster as well as the lives of some people that live near it as well as rescue workers called in to respond to it.
- rdtsc 11y agoThanks for the suggestion. I ordered the book from Amazon.
- arethuza 11y agoI wonder if the "shunning" might have been caused by civil defence training which might have taught people to avoid people from fall-out contaminated areas unless they had been decontaminated? Obviously not directly applicable but in a crisis it might be the kind of mistake people would make.