Thread by @doctor_b_mfa

Story time. So, like, 10 years ago, I was confronted by a seemingly unmovable object: the sudden onset of a physical and neurological impairment, my path to #disability. I thought that was the worst year. Then 2020 happened...( 1/9 )

Before the turn of the new year, the college at which I’d worked chose to not extend my contract — a move that I still take offence toward for the underhanded way they approached it: the last hour on the semester’s last day without forewarning. ( 2/9 )

In any event, I fell back onto my side gig as full time as someone with intractable #pain is able. And I LOVED it. Working tech theatre is amazing. Sure, the hours suck, and higher pay is always desirable, but I was at least being treated with respect & dignity. ( 3/9 )

Which takes us through to the last night I worked. I don’t remember what that production was — though I do remember laughing with the security guards about Covid at the time, because really‽ Really? That Thursday night, I knew I was wrong. Boston was a ghost town. ( 4/9 )

2020 only went downhill from there. Sure, some personal stuff happened, depression & a rising infatuation with alcohol took hold, but the national & international scope of the overall tragedy is the point of this post. ( 5/9 )

There is a “presidential #debate” this evening. Saying it feels like a joke. This said, the nation could see — god, I hope they see — how far we have slid, how cogent discourse is impossible, how science denial and American intellectual resentment have unfolded. ( 6/9 )

I have a dear friend who, along with her husband and adopted children, are quietly looking to get out of the country. Another close friend has her way out already. I, personally, am looking into it, too. ( 7/9 )

The point of this thread is this. If you can have read it, think to yourself “200K Americans died, 1M world citizens — more than the combined totals of influenza, measles, cholera — have died, time to reopen EVERYTHING,” then you know what? ( 8/9 )

You, human, are part of the problem. 1M people — 200K of them most likely your country’s kin — died not to disease but to hubris. Unless you want to die for the dollar bagging groceries, delivering packages, or tending to the dead/dying‽ STFU, ya fucking dumpster fire. ( 9/9 )