Thread by @sunrequiem_

Stuff I want to say to the “friends” who have abandoned Covid solidarity 🧵(thread)

A conflict in opinions is fine. (Do you prefer tea or coffee?) But a clash in ideology of this magnitude will drive a wedge in our relationship. (Do people deserve to be safe or get their lives cut short by a rapidly mutating, vascular, and immunosuppressive virus?)

I am sick for the second time and both my verbal filter and patience are gone while I wait for people to “learn” how to value human life.

I’m sorry, but if you have not demonstrated allyship and solidarity with disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised people, even at this point…

I have to compartmentalize a significantly difficult part of my experience in my relationship with you, and for your comfort, not mine.

It’s as if I were on fire, but I have to ignore it when talking to you, because you won’t help me put it out. Even while I watch you douse other vulnerable people and our own community members in flames and flammable liquids.

I don’t want to “like” or nod and smile at your superspreader event pictures and lifestyle updates.

I don’t want to pretend it’s ok that you co-opt and dilute terms like health equity, social justice, harm reduction, or community care to describe your politic and ethos.

Your complicity in the deadly status quo has caused a loss in trust and literal safety around you.

Where does it even leave us if you are ok with enabling a mass disabling and mass death event?

I understand there is pressure to give into normalcy, but that is not an excuse to perpetuate harm and further marginalization of those of us who resist that narrative!

You are not solely responsible for weaving the fabric of ableism, but you are responsible for your role in upholding its structure.

I know it’s hard, and I’m willing to support you as a co-conspirator, but I’m not willing to coddle your fragile cognitive dissonance.

Wearing a mask and advocating for safer working and living conditions would take far less sacrifice than the grief of losing comrades and loved ones too early…

…Or coordinating the long-term care of comrades who have been maimed by Long Covid, then abandoned in a society that refuses to care for them.

(But of course, you would be the one doing the abandoning, once said friend is unable to perform to your needs, right? I know because I’m one of them.)

If you’re reading this and you think that millions of lives are worth discarding to maintain the empty comfort of abled supremacy and eugenics, I do not have the energy to play along. It makes me sick. (Literally.)

This thread is fueled by rage at the policies and individuals that enabled my second bout with Covid. This time was worse than the first.

Each subsequent infection will be more unsustainable for my body.

My health should not be collateral to your barefaced pictures and restaurant meals.

Sorry for reposting, I realized that the thread would be more readable without the graphics that were initially part of it!

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