as someone who still takes covid very seriously -- it really irritates me how often CC people default to "covid is making everyone so stupid and mean!!" language. it happens in almost every CC space. sorry but I don't think saying brain damage makes you a worse person is protecting disabled people or making people safer from covid. feels extremely eugenicist to me 😐 especially when it's used comparatively ("those evil brain-damaged hordes vs Us the protected, un-brain-damaged heroes")
at least on the zero covid subreddit they suspend people who use that kind of language but outside of forum-type spaces that language and framing just runs rampant















