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Anastasia (1997)
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Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.
There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.
There is no plan.
Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.
We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.
This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.
We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.
People are dying.
People are dying.
People are dying and there is no plan.
More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.
My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.
Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.
But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.
She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.
So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.
[ID: A black nonbinary person with pink curls wearing a pink lacy bra, collar, and pink mushrooms earrings, dancing and laughing to audio repeating “I’m nonbinary but no one believes me cause my tits are huge.”]
It’s taken yeeeeeaaaaars of me pushing and pushing my mom to realize even a LITTLE bit that my dad MAY be abusive. As a kid they’d refuse me therapy and now my MOM is asking my DAD if SHE can get therapy. A GROWN WOMAN IN HER FORTIES. The mantra of “what happens in the house stays in the house” needs to die or only be associated with TV movies about Vegas trips.
[video: a tik tok by a black teacher with captions that summarize what they say
@ mistercapehart: Alright baby let's talk bootstrap theory. It's the idea that regardless of your position in life, through hard work, you can achieve prosperity in this country.
Now I often hear it in response to people who are talking about feeling held back due to their identity or circumstance.
In response to the harm someone's experiencing bootstrap theory is offensive at best. It fails to be meaningful; for a few reasons.
1. History Matters: there are decisions that generations before us made that affect our present circumstance. Ain't nobody born with a blank slate.
2. Policy Matters: There are policies in place that make it difficult for some people to thrive where they're at.
3. Other's Perceptions Of Us Matters: Whether through fear, unconscious bias, or actual violence there are people, like our trans siblings, that have to worry about being attacked and killed in the streets on the daily.
Now there are laws that try to help in these areas but they're not always successful, and sometimes they're purposefully hinderful from being successful by those that would rather protect what they have than consider the good of their neighbour.
Folks hear this and they're like, "life ain't fair you gotta do what you gotta do" but what if instead we said, "life ain't fair, let's do what we gotta do to make it more fair."
Some of y'all get so up in arms cause you pulled it out the mud. You fought. And you fought for what you got, but, my love, you shouldn't have had to.
You overcame odds that were stacked against you - that's amazing.
But don't romanticize struggle so much that you fail to see the ways this country is letting people down.]
