Thread by @dgurdasani1

So tired of all the privileged abelism among so many (including scientists) during the pandemic. Just because you haven't been personally impacted doesn't mean others haven't. Consider that your experience is very different from others who don't enjoy the privileges you do. 🧵

I consider myself privileged too. Although I've been impacted, I know others who've been impacted far worse than me. And many have taken the time to share their very difficult experiences with me over the past few years. I can't even begin to articulate the horror of many of them

Some have lost parents, spouses, siblings. Some children. Some have seen their child become disabled, and been helpless to do anything for them. While watching 'scientists' question if their child's disabling illness is even real. Forget any hope for treatment.

Some have had to fight partners/spouses to protect their families because only one of them is well-informed about risks, and the other has swallowed disinformation that's so widespread - allowed to proliferate in the vacuum left by our incompetent public health agencies.

I've seen parents referred to social services by schools for wanting to protect children. Prosecuted & fined for keeping their child home because of continuous outbreaks and lack of mitigation measures in schools. Lack of reasonable adjustment for clinically vulnerable households

I've seen vaccination for children weaponised by domestic abusers to expert power over their spouse - facilitated by our completely flawed legal system. With children dragged through this - based on baseless disinformation from anti-vax groups.

I've seen the lives of so many children - especially children in clinically vulnerable households diminished. Because no one seems to care about protecting them, or their families. Acceptable collateral damage for the freedom of not wearing a mask & freedom to breathe shared air.

I've seen children in masks ostracised for wanting to protect themselves and there families- often by their own teachers and schools- people who should be protecting them. Supporting them. Having to exert their own independence & agency at such a young age.

I've seen parents have to give up jobs to home school children because their school environment was no longer safe. Some were forced to deregister because their only other option was to face prosecution.

I've seen young children bereaved - having to say goodbye to their parent who couldn't even hear them because they were on a ventilator in a coma.

I'm not even going to talk about my own experience here. Or my child's. But I want to explain why stuff like this makes me so angry. Because these are the groups that did this in the name of protecting children.

https://twitter.com/SelfHarmRes/status/1547177929121173505?s=20&t=bVNUE-pEmOWK0vgs8P0Fpw

If my reaction is visceral, it's because this is personal. I can't even begin to understand how scientists or groups pretending to advocate for children can do this. To children. To families. Families like the ones I've seen struggling over the past 2 years. Families like mine.