Thread by @Inadarkwood

So, let's recap: 1,200 scientists have signed a letter published in The Lancet, saying that the lifting of all restrictions on Monday is an 'unethical experiment' that encourages new covid variants.

Meanwhile, I and every other disabled person I know has been haunted by the fact that 60% of the UK's Covid deaths are disabled people. Just yesterday, it was reported that people with learning disabilities are eight times more likely to die from Covid than their peers.

What does the new government guidance recommend for disabled people to do? 'Avoid the indoors and the unvaccinated.' Just as we have been throughout the entire pandemic, disabled people are being ignored, while we make up a majority of the UK's covid deaths.

The NHS is already beginning to cancel major surgeries and treatments as they become overwhelmed again. Yesterday, there was 48,553 cases. Today it's 51,870. Make no mistake, carrying on with 'freedom day,' and lifting all restrictions on Monday will get disabled people killed.

The fact is that the pandemic is escalating so much that I and many other disabled people are having to get our wills in place, so those around us know what to do if we become a death statistic. Disabled people are having to prepare for the worst, solely because of 'freedom day.'

Many disabled people are having to prepare for the reality that they may not survive the coming wave of infection, purely because we're ruled by a government that does not care about disabled deaths, which insists on lifting all restrictions, against all scientific advice.

The cruel irony is that many people will become disabled by long covid. And they'll find what disabled people have telling them for a decade: that the Tories see disabled people as expendable, that the DWP does everything in its power to make disabled people's lives a living hell

The Tories have advocated for herd immunity since the beginning of the pandemic, which is little more than state sanctioned eugenics. At the start of the pandemic, the gov had a whiteboard which said 'who do we not save?' Once again, the gov are making clear who they won't save.

Now, 1,200 scientists have signed a letter saying the Tories' 'freedom day' poses 'a danger to the world.' Disabled people have never been in more danger than now. Disabled people in England need your support, your anger and your solidarity more urgently than ever.