Sybil | Georgia
The only way I can see of to handle this would be through open communication, but we seem to have moved through to hostility between the two groups. One of their doctors wouldn't have found my virus, for example, since they don't exist yet. And nobody's going to share anything with the council now. They've shot themselves in the foot and rendered themselves untrustworthy.
When are your patients from? Are they just having the basic reaction to unfamiliar food and the like? Assimilating to our microbes?
Influenza and a war. You're from the 1910s, then? Spanish Flu? We learned about that one, that strain is nasty.
Yeah, women can vote. Also hold property and credit in their own names. Everything, really. Though some people are still troglodytes about it and there's lots of sexual objectification, but nobody tries that crap with me.