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considering how I've alienated 90% of people that I used to know on here this probably goes without saying, but if you consider yourself a baeddel or baeddel-adjacent unfollow and block me, I have no interest in interacting with you
if you're waiting on the AMERICAN FUCKING GOVERNMENT to tell you to take covid seriously again you might as well start preparing your last will and testament.
like this isn't the govt that enabled the aids crisis, like this isn't the govt of a country founded on genocide that runs off of the blood and suffering of billions.
THEY KNOW WHAT COVID IS DOING TO YOU! DO YOU?
the population getting sicker and sicker means that insurance companies can charge higher and higher rates- ntm the profits for the supplement/pharmaceutical industries
the population dying younger saves companies money and is effectively a cull in the face of climate collapse-induced food/water shortages
when you accepted the existence of an 'undesirable/expendable' group of people that were deemed ok to sacrifice to death/disablement/total isolation for the sake of consumerist comfort, you chose that fate for yourself as well
covid minimization and the vaccine-only narrative means that hospitals can dodge legal liability for millions of deaths/disablements as a result of not following updated infection control procedure via respirator mandates and clean air systems in healthcare settings
the sicker the population, the more people who are forced to quit work/get fired due to sickness, who are then thrown out onto the streets to die or be imprisoned for slave labor until they die in the camps.
a population repeatedly infected with a virus that causes grey matter shrinkage with each infection is a population easy to subjugate, as people are too exhausted and 'brain fogged (damaged)' to think too deeply about things
the entire global population and a significant portion of animal species have been and are being repeatedly infected with a virus that is effectively airborne hiv/aids, how the FUCK can you claim to want a revolution while ignoring one of the biggest existential threats of this century? how can you ignore the class/racial/gender/colonial implications of the death of public health? how can you claim to be any better when YOU are compromised- both physically and psychologically, capitulating to fascist eugenics for the sake of a capitalist normalcy?
how can you claim to care about vulnerable and marginalized people but not mask in public? over half of all infections are symptomless. children cant consent, workers can't consent, and disabled people deserve to exist in public safely just as much as anyone else. how can you claim to support a free palestine, while you continue to kill and disable the most vulnerable in your own communities? while you enable the spread of the virus that yes, makes its way across the globe to people who do not even have access to the minimal protections vaccinations provide against it. is it because you cannot see the harm you directly cause? that because there is enough plausible deniability through mass-infection that your individual responsibility/conscious is clean enough? do you choose to be ignorant- refuse to learn that current vaccines dont prevent infection/transmission, that masks and clean air are still the best preventative measures, so you can pretend to still be innocent?
why do you take the words of the ruling class more seriously than the words of the millions of disabled people who have been warning and begging you to care for five years? is it because you just don't want to hear about it, don't want to face reality? how can you expect to participate in a revolution when you can't even acknowledge material reality? how bad do things need to get before you are forced to care? do you need to know that your pets can get covid/long covid? that it accelerates biological aging? that it gets into your cells, your bone marrow, your brain? that it gives you aids? that it changes how you THINK? that it increases your risk of early dementia/stroke/heart attack/pots/psychosis? that if you keep getting infections you WILL end up disabled and too tired to contribute to capitalism and thus be deemed expendable? that we are steadily approaching 30% of the population having long covid? that there is currently NO CURE and NO WIDELY ACCESSIBLE TREATMENTS? that you aren't invincible to the eugenics you were fine inflicting on others?
you aren't a revolutionary if you refuse to take covid seriously and educate yourself on it while integrating disability justice into your politics- you're just another coward cosplaying revolutionary aesthetics and language.
starting to recognize how thoroughly ableism is embedded in every aspect of our culture and thinking abt how theres a long pattern u can follow across platforms where someone will comment on a post (doesn't matter the topic) smth about considering disabled people in the dicussion/situation and people who would otherwise consider themselves left-wing immediately dogpile them with 'bean soup' 'i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?' and a general attitude of eye-rolling and 'thats such a small/insignificant part of the population *obviously* we aren't talking about them' as if that isn't literally part of the problem and like that kind of reponse is considered acceptable when it comes to say, the trans/queer populations (a significantly smaller percentage of the gen pop).
it's just gotten a lot more obvious bc of people's reactions when it comes to covid/masking, even when they aren't overtly hostile. it actually feels more insidious when people pretend to be considerate by way of asserting the individualistic lib tagline of 'only high risk people have to worry about it, so they can choose to protect themselves :) i respect their choice to mask <3' effectively absolving themselves of any responsibility and shutting down the conversation under the guise of Reasonable Compromise. (as if disabled people don't have to go out in public too, as if they don't need safe healthcare, as if they don't have the right to community and a fulfilling life like everyone else, as if our lives are too inconvenient/not important enough to fight for. not even getting into the fact that if they've had covid even ONCE, they are also High Risk, and its literally only a matter of time before they find themselves disabled too 💀 no one wants to consider themselves vulnerable or Like Those Useless Rejects of Society).
Oops All Eugenics!
"Masking has been politicized" doesn't capture the full truth of what's going on.
Masks have been identified as the visual trigger for a problem, not the solution to multiple pressing public health issues.
To please right wing elements in the desperate hope of stealing *checks notes* fascist support for an openly fascist party, the center-right Democrats in the US with Joe Biden as their figurehead worked to downplay the continued necessity of masking even as studies on viral genetics find that vax-only methods for controlling covid cause more rapid and effective viral immune escape to become dominant, does little to actually prevent spread of the illness (especially in enclosed spaces), and has showed that doctors are willing to toe a political line instead of following scientific and medical best practices for halting the spread of a communicable disease which is still killing more Americans than breast and prostate cancer combined.
People who refuse to mask in public spaces, stay home when sick, use tests, or otherwise refuse to take covid seriously as a public health threat have shifted politically to the right.
People who mock and belittle those still taking precautions have adopted political positions identical to the "cough in my mouth" pandemic deniers of 2020 and are pushing full blown eugenics about who should be allowed to safely navigate public life.
"Has been" implies a past tense, an end to the pattern. Masking *contines* to be politicized. A public health tool has been narratively relegated to the bin of "public health tools that don't work" as it continues to be roped in with ideas like enforced distancing and face shields to prevent the spread of airborne illness.
Public health agencies refuse to take the scientifically confirmed threat of aerosols spread just by breathing seriously, pushing handwashing as the number one prevention for illnesses that can linger on poorly ventilated indoor air for dozens of minutes to dozens of hours given the right conditions.
This is a global effort to deny responsibility for a continuing crisis as covid continues to spread and long covid rates have skyrocketed, especially in children where the condition has surpassed asthma as the leading chronic illness in children. This is a failure by medicine to keep up with science and remain apolitical. This is a failure of public health to act in the defense of all. This is the normalization of fascist eugenics in daily life.
"Masks have been politicized" is trying to say ^ all of that ^
Mask up. Keep us safe. Keep you safe.
Happy pride only to queers who do everything they can to halt the spread of the pandemic which is killing us
Fuck y'all assimilationist fucks who stopped masking because the rich said to party, spend, work, and ignore the dying and dead
i really dont mean to trivialize it but being covid conscious and walking past random 20/30-somethings on the street talking about their mysterious new health conditions that 'came out of nowhere' really truly makes me feel like im in the prologue chapter of an apocalyptic video game
BORN TO LOSE 1995 I FAIL COLLEGES WITH MY FACE IN THE UNITED DISGRACE I AM DEBASED ON MY DISINTEREST I IMAGINED THE SINGER OF THE PIXIES'S HEAD SUPERIMPOSED ON THE BODY OF A BAWLING BABY SHIVERING IN THE COLD BY GAWD WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?
i should have killed myself years ago. why in the fuck am i still here at all
God damn America and her insatiable bloodlust. An America that seized Indigenous livestock, forcibly relocated and desecrated their land, and ripped away their ancestral tongues, spirituality, traditions, and heritages, giving them colonizer names, cutting their storied locks of hair. God damn America that launched biological warfare against our Indigenous siblings and attempted to sever their lineages, their very connection to red, black and brown earthen soil. An America that forcibly sterilized and experimented on Indigenous peoples as medical ‘test subjects.’ This is the vile America that settler-squatters commemorate with picnics, barbecues, cookouts, parades, cold beers and concerts - the very sadism Zionists emulate on the outskirts of Gaza’s concentration camps. An America that placed bounties on Indigenous scalps. Whose Cavalry troop revolvers mutated into police shootings. Her intention has always been total eradication or brutal forced assimilation. Indigenous peoples are relegated as ghosts, mere signposts to a supposed bygone history, only remembered when their names are etched on lethal weapons of mass destruction (‘Tomahawk’ missiles and ‘Apache’ helicopters) or football teams (the Washington ‘Red Skins’ the Kansas City ‘Chiefs’). And yet Indigenous resistance’s roots clutch the earth, endure and will not bend, when the land always fights alongside its unwavering resurgent people.
Communique #5: God Damn America, by Dr. Mohamed Abdou
Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, Baja California Sur, México
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I just feel a complete and irrevocable alienation from most other humans, but it's not bidirectional. I still care about them, I still see how we're all interconnected, I am still committed to minimising harm against all living creatures. But the flow of that energy towards me is gone and will never come back. I've been permanently cast off from the tribe.
it really is impossible to convey (to someone who isn't disabled especially) the depths of despair many people with long covid are experiencing not only from loss of autonomy and development of chronic illness, but also by the betrayal of 'back to normal', of people doing their best to forget covid ever happened (is still happening).
the isolation is indescribably painful. our families and friends are turning their backs on us, refusing to mask, refusing to keep us and other disabled people safe. i will never forget living in this point in time as long as i live. i will never forget how as a society we left disabled people to convalesce and suffer alone as the lives we knew, our goals and dreams are shattered.
I cannot look at people the same after mostly everyone was okay sacrificing grandma and disabled people for the economy and so they could go to concerts and restaurants.
I just can't. I wish I could be normal but in the years since people's willingness to let disabled people die has just become more and more evident.
The banality of evil is perhaps the most disgusting and inescapable thing about this existence and it sucks so bad. People will go out of their way and put effort into ignoring or creating narratives about the plight of their neighbors, but they won't do an easy thing or two to help avoid some of those worst outcomes because then they couldn't pretend everything was normal and they were a good person.
COVID has killed more people in the US in 5 years than HIV has killed since 1981, and you still can't get queer people to wear a goddamn mask at community events.
I refuse to believe that it's because you don't care.
I think it's because you're afraid to care.
You'd have to acknowledge that it is that bad, that you and everyone you love could wind up permanently disabled or dead at any time, and that all of our lives have been permanently changed by going through a(nother) mass traumatizing event.
Covid caution is intersectional praxis in action. Acting like covid is over just serves the status quo. Make the right choice. Stand by your politics instead of for nothing.
“nasa is a civilian agency” okay? so is the justice department
it’s just really fucking hard to feel anything but disdain about this cause it’s like. cool. great. I’m sure those astronauts had fun. but I just cannot get excited about a flex of soft power and empty platitudes like “we will always choose Earth” “we will always choose each other” like okay. well that’s not true. famously we are choosing absolutely anything but those things. I guess making it possible for a few people to die on Mars instead of on Earth like the rest of us is a noble quest. stop asking/expecting me to be enthusiastic or inspired or impressed about it.
ululating is a more pleasant sound than anything sabrina carpenter's ever produced
