Yeah, fuck the kinksters. Metaphorically.

It'll be great if people understand decontamination well enough to approve of it. The government could replace the reds without murdering them like all those backwaters are doing. But even if, like, this study goes great - and it probably will, his interlocutors seem smart - purples might still be too dumb to get it. 

Purples had better understand cleanliness, the maids are all purple.

"Yeah maybe purples'll trust the research even if they can't read it."

They all get to read the research. It is very long and perhaps a little deliberately overwritten. It lists dozens of proposed mechanisms for genetic transmission of uncleanliness and explains how the proposed procedure should satisfy for all of them, digresses into discussing the theological innovations Olvala proposed and how they were justified and how this is better-justified than that, concludes by observing that this would allow for a smooth transition to a redless society without the chaos, pollution, and catastrophe that has plagued countries attempting to achieve same by massacre and arguing that a top theological priority should be confirming or refining this procedure. 

Then there are footnotes listing ways the procedure was refined and pages and pages of signatories to the procedure.

Green college students go a little glassy eyed but read the things.

Then they can have a control apple that was bought from the store and not handled by anyone!

And then an apple that decontaminated ex-reds touched.

And then an apple that an actual red touched.

"Is this one of those experiments that lies to you about stuff," wonders a green dubiously.

"I think that would be illegal? And wasn't in the consent forms."

"- that's so illegal when it comes to pollution," they are reassured. "Anyway everyone already knows that people can't detect pollution when it's a double-blind test, they checked that back before we had modern ethical standards. We've got a whole supervisory team here to make sure you get washed properly if you touch the apples the proper reds touched, they set procedures to get the apples here cleanly, it's testing exactly what we told you."

"Okay."

They investigate the apples. Most of them agree the decontaminated reds can't have fucked up the apples, at least not, like, badly, right, everybody who died after the Voa mess was just psyching themselves up. They eat apples.

Results are dutifully reported. 

This is controversial.

What a surprise. 

She declares herself satisfied. She has a summer house in the mountains and can get them jobs working there. The usual staff gets a sizable bonus for training them and working with them. If the usual staff there isn't sure about that and doesn't want to work there even with the bonus, they can transfer to her place here.

Some of them do that.

Very understandable!

Can anyone agree on a place to put reds.

An equatorial country offers some jungle they're not doing anything with, hideously overpriced.

"They'll all die."

"They're all going to die anyway. Maybe Evalee'll think it's cheaper than their ongoing current mess."

No, Evalee has to keep their reds, see, because somebody keeps sabotaging their efforts to get rid of them.

It seems very likely that if the reds had somewhere to go they would cooperate with being gotten rid of.

It doesn't seem likely to Evalee.

"My father thinks if you collected lots of unstable radioactive elements and exploded them you could make the whole planet uninhabitable," he says longingly to Kan.

"You sound like Telkam."

"I'm just so tired of burning everything for a tiny chance - less than a chance - of mitigating decisions for which - in fifty years everyone will think us monsters -"

"Yeah. Maybe someone'll go for it. Maybe the reds can collectively fundraise."