The Loneliness of Being Misunderstood

"That's what I've been saying, you shouldn't always be buried in your work; you need to manage public opinion as well," Allen warned seriously.

"Are there no supportive comments at all?" Macy asked.

"Of course, there are, but everyone who speaks out in your support gets attacked," Allen explained. "They're called bootlickers, accused of being paid off, or just mindlessly praising. I've gotten tired of reading them."

"However, overall, the biggest complaints are about the requisitioning of supplies and properties."

"That's something we had to do. Without requisitioning supplies, the safe zone would have been a complete mess by now," Macy argued.

"The requisition of properties is obviously to accommodate more survivors. There are only three residential complexes here, with 3,000 families. Most of the hundred thousand people in the safe zone are here for work, got trapped while passing through, or had no other place to stay."