Are any major disability rights or civil rights groups taking up causes like mask mandates being dropped (esp in healthcare) and the systemic neglect and killing of high risk & disabled people during this pandemic? Cause I'm not seeing it. It's all activists and grassroots orgs.
It's really horrifying to me, this silence from even major disability orgs, the past few years. Not only silence, but a lot of them have been holding in-person maskless conferences etc. We need numbers, we need organizing, we need funding, and it's nowhere to be found.
I see disability rights listed on @ACLU's website. Can you help us challenge the dropping of mask mandates in healthcare? Our health and lives are about to be threatened even more than ever. We've been shut out of public life, are being discriminated against and killed. Help us?
@ACLU According to their site, @ACLU supports "full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, voting, and beyond." That means you need to help us fight the dropping of precautions and mask mandates. Are you doing anything about this? #KeepMasksinHealthcare
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I’m honestly jealous of the privilege it takes to have never had chronic pain, illness, disability and believe you’re invulnerable, the worst case can’t possibly happen to you, and if it does, you’ll ultimately be fine and there’s help.
I lost that illusion a long time ago.
Unfortunately, that entitlement and superiority people feel over those of us who are chronically ill and/or have gotten long COVID is perpetuating all of this so I’m more angry about it than jealous these days. It’s harming me, loved ones, the community, and ultimately everyone.
Our collective futures have been tossed away by the government and capitalism to play pretend until we can’t anymore. And people are all too happy to buy into it. Disabled and high risk folks are the first to be sacrificed, but with enough infections, this is coming for everyone.
The phrase "hostile apathy" came into my mind earlier, thinking about how people used to care at least a little about COVID precautions and high risk folks. Now we get attacked in the form of: "I can't care about this FOREVER! What can we do? Stop talking about it. Get over it."
Of course, some people go with: "It's over. It's the flu. It's not a problem anymore." That's COVID denial and minimizing. But the people who are aware it's still a problem are often hopeless and apathetic in a confrontational, angry way that attacks anyone who does still care.
What makes me the most angry is the "We can't live like this forever!" people are referring to occasionally wearing masks, taking rapid tests, isolating when sick, etc. The people who can rightfully say that are the ones who have been unable to go ANYWHERE safely for 2+ years.