Thread by @JolentaG

Since Twitter is about to implode, I'll be blunt
CW: self-harm and suicide

Being considered an acceptable loss in the prime of my life and watching the CDC encourage everyone to leave us at-risk people for dead in order to move on - this has made me consider suicide almost daily

If we keep acting like Covid-19 is over, or it's OK to get & spread, we'll lose a lot of at-risk people. We’ll lose them to a pandemic we're spreading freely or to the consequences of isolation and neglect with no end in sight. Being left for dead eventually makes you want to die

I don’t say this for attention, I have a skilled therapist and wonderfully supportive family & friends. But I’m privileged.

There are tons of people like me struggling for society to remember that they mater, that they deserve a life. But people seem to care less about the “already unwell” every day - it’s untenable.

3% of Americans are immunocompromised (7 million people). That’s 1 out of every 33 people that we’ve left for dead - and this is only a subset of at-risk people. You know someone who's as hopeless as me, you have the power to mask in public or reach out to show solidarity.

Our lives, the lives of those #highriskcovid19, are in your hands - and so far you don’t seem to give a shit. Please prove me wrong. Please start showing that you value the lives of others and not just your own.

We used to be in this together, and those left behind when we dropkicked this ideology to the curb are feeling the loss HARD