Thread by @Inadarkwood

Ever since the news came out last week that a majority of Covid deaths in the UK are disabled people, I've been able to think of little else. Despite making up less than 15% of the population, disabled people make up 60% of the UK's Covid deaths.

I've been wondering why I've been so desolate, sluggish, and unable to concentrate. Watching eugenics become casually mainstream might have something to do with it.

Disabled people in the UK have been living with a certain amount of background terror for over a decade now thanks to Tory rule. But I've never seen so many people say, on national platforms, that my life is expendable as much as right now. It's incredibly hard to take.

I'm one of many who are going through a PiP tribunal amidst the pandemic. Being inside the machinery that killed so many of my friends before the pandemic, while more disabled people die from Covid and eugenics becomes painfully casual, is a bit much, even for me.

In case you missed it, here is a thread from earlier this week, that goes into more depth about why it's so terrifying to simply exist as a disabled person in the UK.

https://twitter.com/Inadarkwood/status/1360327166043521026?s=19

No words I write can make you understand the sheer scale of how much the Tories have decimated the UK's disabled community. By the time I was 24, all my close disabled friends were dead. I hope you never know how horrible it is for a funeral suit to become a second skin.

And now, because the Tories have ignored disabled people from the very beginning of the pandemic, more and more people are struggling through the mass grief of entire groups of people dying, and it makes my blood boil.

I'm aware this is extremely heavy for lunchtime tweeting, but this is the reality that disabled people in the UK are living with every day.

I always hesitate to tweet about my friends, because it's just so damn horrible. But I think of them all everyday, as do all their parents, siblings and peers. And now more people are having to grieve wonderful people far too early due to Tory incompetence.

When I say, 'check in on your disabled friends' I'm really not kidding. Every disabled person I've spoken to this week is struggling with the fact that the government is more than happy to let us die. We're struggling, folks.