Watching Chernobyl and…yikes.
I mean, I’ve read about the disaster. Can’t remember why I read about it, but it wasn’t that long ago. I learned about the test gone wrong, how the firefighters could taste metal in their mouths and how they died excruciating deaths just a few days and weeks later, how from that point on, it was a race against time to bury the reactor…
But, damn. Watching it play out in cinematic fashion, it’s much more horrifying than just reading about it. And there is SO MUCH that happened already (we’ve only watched the first two episodes) that never came across in the reading I’d done, or the shows I’d watched.
The people involved.
How insane it is that this entire region was evacuated with almost no notice, and people left their homes with a single suitcase and never, ever returned again.
It also makes me think about how so often our first reaction to any crisis is to say that everything is okay, that everything is going to be fine, nothing terrible has happened. It’s not always evil, that response. It’s part of human nature.
Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not saying that’s all that happened with Chernobyl. It’s clearly not. Over and over again, people refused to recognize the facts, which is something entirely different. It just made me think about that impulse, and how that can lead us so astray when things are, in fact, not okay. It can cost people their lives.
I had a wonderful day at home today. I slept in, I ate breakfast and walked the pups, then I took care of putting together this week’s Film School episode. Then I did laundry and watched the A’s sweep the Mariners. Ate lunch. Liz fed the pups, and then we took a nap together. Walked the pups, then went to the grocery store and picked up baking supplies because…I ate dinner and made cookies!
They turned out a little dry. Cooked this first batch too long. BUT…I only cooked one sheet just for that reason. I’ll try again tomorrow. Did that, and watched Chernobyl with Bear.
Oof.
Night 🙂