I’m not talented enough to actually produce a good requiem, so I’ll get right to the point.
Radiation poisoning and other clinical symptoms of exposure normally take quite a while to show up, since the vast majority of such cases these days are from relatively low doses. However, we have more than enough evidence to indicate the results of the Fukushima nuclear generators disaster is producing fairly high doses in the surrounding population. I’m not in a position to know whether the Japanese government bureaucracies are slower or otherwise less benign than average in this world, but we can see all need to know the government of Japan has not acted wisely in this mess.
Take a moment from your daily dose of encroaching police state misery, and spare some sorrow for the millions of Japanese residents who will begin very soon suffering the effects of radiation exposure, if they haven’t already. It will all too soon become such a disaster, I wonder if it will dwarf the two nuclear bombs we dropped on them in the previous century. This time, we only helped a little as they did it to themselves. I doubt the people had any real useful information to even dream of what little resistance the Japanese culture would permit.
Then, I want you take a moment to consider how this hideous picture reflects the state of things, and know beyond all doubt, wherever you are in this world, it’s likely your government would do as bad or even worse than this.
