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Originally Posted by bbfg
Just lol. The USA is a sad place right now and Trump is the worst, but this is just factually incorrect. Do you really think if Chernobyl happens in USA today, events would unfold in the same way? Information suppression, delayed evacuations, keeping up a facade to the world that everything is OK, lying to citizens about what precautions to take,...
This post did not age well.
Anyway, I actually wanted to post for a different reason altogether. I was speaking to my mother and we got onto the topic of Chernobyl, given the recent radiation spike detected in Sweden. She was a govt. research scientist for most of her career and worked with a woman whose husband was some sort of technician at the Chernobyl site. What he went through sounds utterly horrific. He was in hospital for ten years after the accident, barely recovering from the radiation poisoning he suffered. After getting home and for the rest of his life, he couldn't be exposed to even small amount of sunlight as it would make his skin feel like it was burning up. His mood also drastically changed, the colleague would turn up at the institute at all hours seeking refuge because her husband had battered her severely. The last thing she told me was that her and my dad were invited for dinner once and after dinner he quite forcefully suggested that they wife swap for the evening, to which they politely declined and left. They didn't go for dinner a second time.
Anyway, not much to add to the discussion other than it was a great series and try not to get yourself into a similar situation if you can at all avoid it.