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so many appendices..

(i may be mixing up the two companies at points) but also how are we still going through trials? all the while there are still girls working in these factories! it's been close to two decades at this point!

there's no doubt that the reason usrc could take advantage of their workers for over 10 years was a combination of the facts that they were 1) young women and 2) factory workers

almost instantly after a wealthy, male consumer of radium products died from radium poisoning, radium products were pulled from shelves and made illegal

-fired a worker for having a limp (caused by the radium poisoning)

-conspired to have an autopsy of a worker in secret and stole her bones
-CONTINUE to lie to workers about their risk

-refused settlements
-when faced with lawsuits, blamed the girls (lying about the instructions given to them) and spread rumors that they were dying of syphilis
-conspired with a doctor (NOT A REAL DOCTOR) to lie to new patients about their condition when possible and convince them to settle out of court when necessary

i mean, cartoonishly villainous stuff

it's unfortunate how all our modern safety regulations come with the sacrifice of the people who came before us. this reminds me of mouth pipetting, which was protocol in our industry until the 1970s. it's still discussed at work today when we talk about biohazard precautions

never take your safety protections for granted, and always be cautious of the bare minimum legal requirements for your employer

their blood was "abnormal" after as little as 2 weeks of work. their bone marrow turned red; their breath was radioactive; their corpses glowed in their coffins. underground, they'll continue to be radioactive for hundreds of years.

you literally couldnt write a book more horrifying than this true story

-lied about the results of an investigation

-ignored years of warnings, suspicions, and questions
-ignored pleas for help from workers' families

-the company quietly forbids lip pointing, while lying about the reason why. at this point, years have passed, multiple girls have died, and still more are becoming sick

id heard of this before, but id always assumed the dangers of radium werent known, which would have made this tragic enough. but while it was not largely known to the public, scientists and those in the industry were WELL aware. the company involved (so far)

-equipped the male scientists with safety gear, meanwhile
-not only did not provide the female factory workers with any safety equipment, LIED to them and said

im not sure there's a more agonizing, drawn out death than the radium poisoning these teenage & young adult women experienced. i dont even wanna recount the details tbh

the more details you learn about this series of events, the more horrified you become

MAKE THE PHONE CALL FIRST!!!! this whole thing could have been resolved faster if anyone had made a single phone call

i dont get it, donna had been so close to getting them out, and now we've just given up again? girl youve got nothing to lose at this point

the fact that cujo was such a sweet dog before getting rabies makes this even more tragic. AND we had to hear from cujo's perspective as he got more and more sick? stephen king you know youre wrong for putting me through this

it's a very conflicting feeling to both pity and viscerally hate donna

he's making the students cut off their hair?? 😭 because theyre not allowed to have curly hair, or braids? because they should dress "with shamefacedness"??

"of course we beat you and emotionally abuse you, how dare you be so ungrateful and dislike us, just because we beat and emotionally abuse you...."

"i couldnt help with the investigation" hello?? you were 9 and the victim was a family member, WHY would you have been asked to help with the investigation??

did she really just use the phrase "deadcicles" informing someone of multiple deaths that just occurred???

fell into an obvious trap, giving out way too much information and letting him stall when she should have known something was up..

the idea of aliens with symbiotic relationships is fun, but im confused why human relationships with dogs, bacteria, etc dont seem to count, also why not having a symbiotic relationship would make humans "less evolved" (not how evolution works)

are we going to get to a point where mallory's not constantly wallowing about this so-called curse? im desperately hoping a twist comes where xan has been responsible for the whole thing

wait, the main character of a murder mystery, who's convinced she's like cursed or whatever to be constantly surrpunded by murders, is also a murder mystery author? isnt that a little too on the nose?

already getting tired of mallory- not a good sign