So many of y'all who are comfortably ignoring this because it doesn't matter to you are missing that those repeat Covid infections will give you the conditions that MAKE you part of the population you've deemed expendable.
Your ableism will circle back to bite you in the ass.
You're also missing that those 100k-250k he's talking about are *official* covid deaths - it does NOT include the heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, etc that Covid causes later. And those deaths are NOT so centralized within so-called "vulnerable populations."
Normalizing mass death (and preventable mass death at that) is a literal page from the Nazi playbook.
Eugenics and "useless eater" propaganda is a literal page from the Nazi playbook.
This should be setting off MASSIVE alarm bells people.
You certainly shouldn't be calling yourself an anti-fascist if you're ok with any part of this, that's for damn sure.
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There’s a reason that the White House still requires testing and upgraded ventilation to get anywhere near the President. There’s a reason economic/financial outlets like Bloomberg are seemingly the only ones still truly reporting on Covid. There is a reason #DavosSafe is a thing
The wealthy elite know that one of the BIGGEST competitive advantages they can give themselves their children going into the next century is not having been exposed to repeat Covid infections. It will confer so many intersecting layers of privilege that you can’t put a price on.
So to my fellow Covid conscious folks who are struggling under the weight of how hard everything is right now: try to remember, you’re essentially playing the long game. For all we’re losing out on now, our kids will thank us for it later. But more than that…
A tricky part of having a condition with PEM (post exertional malaise) is that it’s not just triggered by PHYSICAL activity - the adrenaline of intense periods of anxiety & emotion seem trigger it as well.
I woke up this morning feeling as if I had been flattened by a truck. 🥴
Charlie had some issues in the night (he usually sleeps through consistently) which likely didn’t help, and he still has some continuing digestive symptoms today. But luckily he seems almost completely back to normal personality wise - which is a HUGE relief. He’s gonna be ok.
Huge shoutout to the FB group “Poisons Help Emergency Identification For Mushrooms & Plants.” HIGHLY recommend joining if you have a dog. The animal poison control line directed us there to get an exact ID of the ivy Charlie ate, & consulted w/ the hospital on his treatment.
👨🏼💼“Work/life balance isn’t for me, my main priority right now is work success.”
👩🏼 “But Foster parents need to prioritize foster kids.”
👥“ACTUALLY this guy’s main priority is his family, not work. How shitty of you to just assume he actually meant what he tweeted?”
😒😒😒
The way y’all rabidly defended that man against the assumption he prioritized work over his home life… when he literally tweeted about prioritizing work and voluntarily working over 40 hrs, while saying that work/life balance is “to each his own.”
But it’s always the same. You can’t EVER criticize foster or adoptive parents. They are saints and saviors, and adoptees/foster survivors who are anything less than “grateful” are just “bitter” and too damaged/traumatized to be listened to on this topic.
The fact THIS level of preventable mass death has been completely normalized to most people should be setting off MAJOR alarm bells to anyone watching the simultaneous rise of fascism.
We are repeating the post-1918 pandemic period to a T.
It’s also revealing just how many self named anti-fascists are uh… not on the side they seem to think.
The way leftist discourse on here regularly parrots “useless eater” propaganda in order to discredit folks still taking Covid precautions is absolutely chilling honestly.
But it’s basic logic really: the *majority* of people reading the history of the Nazis assume they’d have been on the right side, and yet the majority of Germans at the time went along with it. So either you think Germans in that time period were just uniquely unethical, OR…
Some of y’all get rightfully angry at the Republicans every time they want to raise the social security age to reduce the time folks are on it, but completely fail to understand the way letting Covid rip accomplished the same goal in a MUCH darker way - reducing life expectancy.
Learn to be aware of the ways you’re being deliberately desensitized to deaths among our seniors. You’re not only being told to ignore the thousands of folks still dying of Covid each week, you’re being told to feel RELIEF because it’s “mostly elderly folks dying now.”
Some of you are probably thinking, “But Stephanie, if so many people are being DISABLED by Covid as well, won’t any money saved be cancelled out by all the people needing to go on social security early?”
On Tuesday I said yes to a BIG opportunity for Jack that meant we needed to attend something in person. I’m telling y’all this in the spirit of honesty and transparency. We both wore well sealed n95s the whole time, never broke the seal for so much as a sip of water inside.
It was a tough decision to take risks for something non-essential, but since it’s clear the willingness is just NOT there to get Covid under control or push for a true neutralizing vaccine, we are facing a reality where we may be stuck like this indefinitely.
So we’re trying to figure out what that might look like for us. It does NOT mean we go back to 2019 normal level of activity just wearing masks. We still need pretty high reward to be worth our risks - so not very many things will meet that threshold yet.