What the Eyes Don’t See is a very intellectual and informative book, not only about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, but also about the author, Mona Hanna-Attisha, life.
In the first chapters of this book it is an introduction to the struggles that Hanna-Attisha and her family faced, while in Iraq and moving to America. I believe that this strongly impacted her and gave her some type of motivation when it came to the crisis in Flint and D.C.. The author had a lot of support from family and friends as this epidemic was exposed to her and the residents of Flint. From the support and help of her mother to the help of her friend Elin.
As you read chapters 5-8 the topic gets more relatable. Although the epidemic isn’t the same, it is similar to what the world is going through now with a pandemic. The situations aren’t to far apart from each other. Many lives being taken, many people being harmed and what is seems like many people not caring. Through chapters 5 – 8 she tells about learning new information about the crisis and no one trying to find a solution to the problem, in comparison to the pandemic we are in now, we learn new information weekly or even monthly, but there is still no solution to the problem. There has only been minor fixes or small solutions such as-for Flint drinking out of water bottles-for the world mask, gloves, and stressing the importance of hand hygiene.
The way things are for Flint and it being an ongoing problem to this day is saddening, it’s even more saddening to think that the people who can make a change aren’t or they are unable to make that change.
“What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.” -John Denver.