#resist eugenics

[rikaklassen]

Today is the third annual Long COVID Awareness Day. Here are some posters from @edania, a mutual from another site.

The original posters, prior to the edits, are from ACT UP during the AIDS-HIV denialism and the queer genocide under the Reagan administration,. This time, they're repurposed for COVID-19 or SARS-COV-2.

Source: Cohost/@edania (via Wayback Machine)

Source: Cohost/@edania (via Wayback Machine)

I am not able to find the original "Where Is Your RAGE" and "CDC Kills" posters (access denied) from mx. papaya which inspired the above posters. You can download free agitprop from mx.papaya's  Ko-Fi.

[rb3tree]

Seeing people, especially in LGBTQ+ community, say "I got flu from Glastonbury" fucking SCARES me. The flu is seasonal. Very very few people get the flu in July. We are in the middle of a SARS-2 (covid-19) wave, it's already pretty well established that Glastonbury was a super-spreader event.

So many people died in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And the LGBTQ+ community understood that governments did not care about those deaths. The same is happening right now with SARS-2. Asymptomatic or mild symptoms do not mean you are safe, 10-20% of SARS-2 infections result in long-term health conditions. The risk is cumulative, each infection carries that risk, so the more times you get it, the greater chance you face long-term health conditions as a result.

The rhetoric of "only vulnerable people are at risk" is eugenicist. Everyone deserves to live, and to live without constant exposure to life threatening infectious disease.

RESIST EUGENICS. WEAR A MASK.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/02/summer-wave-of-covid-in-england-how-worried-should-i-be

(I know the guardian isn't the best news source but let's be honest all the UK papers are fucked up, this is the best I can find)