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Too soon still. In France they were bullshiting us that the radiation had stopped at the border, while all the radiologic alarms in the fire stations were going off.
Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She'll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.
Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big "disaster" was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren't allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don't know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.
But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.
Isn't trauma the best part of a joke though?
I very much align with the WKUK gag of "comedy is tragedy remembered"
But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else's. Hence, know your audience.