Hearing a nurse on @democracynow describe “the pit”
where COVID+ patients were sent to die, reading on elder death in Belgium, thinking of COVID task force member Zeke Emanuel’s essay on why life isn’t worth living after 75–and my heart feels heavy about transnational ableism
where COVID+ patients were sent to die, reading on elder death in Belgium, thinking of COVID task force member Zeke Emanuel’s essay on why life isn’t worth living after 75–and my heart feels heavy about transnational ableism
Last night I got angry abt a thread saying we are at “war” with this virus. We are NOT at “war” with the virus. Indeed, comparing 9/11/2001 with COVID-19 reveals that the US didn’t care about death on 9/11...it cared about vengeance.
A comparable number of ppl in the US who died on 9/11 (abt 3,000) died of COVID every two to three days. But we learn almost nothing them. But for hospital workers and body movers, we largely don’t see how they actually die. And bc if volume we learn little about any one of them.
The idea that care is being rationed at the end of life within such a racist and ableist healthcare system is outrageous.
On @democracynow, a great conversation on Native Americans and COVID. Like the connected crisis of police violence, COVID is impacting Native Americans as badly or worse than Black Americans while getting much less coverage
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