If politicians had to side with the lawyers, then they had to side with the cancer, and that's what they did. It must sound unthinkable to an outsider, but when you live here, you get used to these things. At this point, after being used to the same kinds of ads over and over, I'd find it hard to trust a candidate who didn't pledge to boost the economy by increasing the number of mesothelioma sufferers.

How they actually planned to do that was anybody's guess, but people just wanted it done. Even if you were one of the people afflicted with this supposedly horrible disease, you were still happy to be doing your part to keep the economy going. You could even say it was our local version of the American dream.

Deep down, no one really believed that any one candidate would be the one to live up to his promises. Just like the war on terror or the search for sustainable energy, this was not a problem that was going to be solved overnight. Only it was.

About a year ago, a surge in the number of mesothelioma cases became big news. We had always known that we led the world in total number of cases, and we were off the charts if you looked at the number of cases per capita. But for the first time, we all had a good grasp of just how many victims there were.

That's how it goes with the exponential function. Like Godzilla amassing size at the bottom of the ocean, nobody noticed how big it had gotten until the day it reared its ugly head right in our faces. The mesothelioma cases were always there, but they had now reached a critical mass and entered the public consciousness.

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