Apart from being a public health disaster and an unrestrained source of death and chronic illness, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned out to be a fertile breeding ground for a dangerous form of thinking I want to call health supremacism. 1/6 🧵
Health supremacism is the fantasy of a group of "naturally healthy people" who have a privilege to dominate and sideline the others in society. These supposedly superior people are imagined to be those strong enough to be able to 'Iive with' covid. 2/6
In this fantasy, the superior class is entitled to perform a segregation of society along the lines of 'healthy' and 'vulnerable'. To leave by the wayside anyone who doesn't conform to its conception of natural health or doesn't subscribe to the supremacist ideology. 3/6
Health supremacism, like its allies white supremacism and male supremacism, comes in manifest and latent forms. Manifestly, you see it explode during anti-mask and anti-vax rallies. Latently, it festers wherever people are being bullied or excluded for taking covid seriously 4/6
In the end, every form of supremacism is a fascism. Every fascism must be resisted. Yet health supremacist thinking is a vehicle for fascism, which currently even many self-proclaimed anti-fascists seem to embrace and celebrate. 5/6
We must step up against the rise of this supremacist tendency. Call yourself an anti-fascist? Then resist this health supremacist tendency now. Fight it. Don't help fascism gain its foothold even more ✊ 6/6
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