The AustraliaHasFallen hashtag just shows again that people will gladly harm or kill themselves for the right and freedom to put disabled and old people into an early grave. This is what the whole rhetoric about the virus only taken out the vulnerable had lead to.
People seriously think that being able to survive the virus makes them better than other people. I wish I was joking. Ego leads. "I think it does not harm me, why would I do anything to benefit other?"
And I am not saying any of this to make light of all the other stuff other
communities and groups of people deal with. Seriously not. But people are not protesting for better financial support and stuff like that. They are protesting for measurements to not want to care about this situation and pretend covid isnt there. Things to want that will only end
up with everybody losing all around.
And that is why I hate on so many anti covid measurements in the Netherlands too. The needs that arise are valid, but pretending that covid doesn't exist, doesn't stop covid. Why are you not asking for help to stay close?Protesting for that?
The answer is easy. It is ableism. And ageism too. In the end you decided that live opening up despite the spread of covid are worth more than disabled people's lives. You do not think that we are important for society or the world but whatever you want to do, is.
It is ableism that makes you go: Let just open up and resume live, disabled people be damned.
It is ableism that makes you chose for what benefits solely you, and not for solutions that helps you and disabled people both.
It is ableism that makes you break covid measures during
the protests and bring it to our doorsteps so it will kill us.
It is ableism. It has always been deadly and it is deadly now. And so are you.
It does not matter to you that when you put yourself in harms way, you will take disabled people with you. And you can say it does, but
I won't believe you, cause it will be a lie.
*against measurements
*anti covid measurement protests damnit, I am so tired I made too many mistakes.
Sorry about all the spelling mistakes, I am exhausted.
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