Thread by @KateSpitzmiller

Imagine what it’s like for people who have spent 3+ years desperately sick, disabled, and alone with long covid.

https://twitter.com/lsthart/status/1666872876023132162

Some of us were not only abandoned by family, friends, and society, but we were victims of financial and property crimes. No one cares. Not law enforcement, not elected officials, no one. People with LC have zero civil rights despite being protected (on paper) by the #ADA.

And what does society do now, 3+ years later?

Nothing. There is no help. No support.

Sure the Twitter covid-conscious community says all the right things but actual logistical/physical/“real” support?

Nope. We aren’t worth it. To anybody.

They won’t offer to help you by taking out the trash,

But they’ll take your home.

They won’t ask you what you need,

But they’ll steal your car.

They won’t believe you when you tell them you’re disabled,

But they’ll gossip with everyone about the way you are forced to live as a disabled person with zero support.

They’ll abandon you because you’re “different” while pretending to be “liberals” who “care.”

Being disabled by long covid in the United States is like having leprosy in Biblical times. We are not even seen as human anymore by people we have known for decades.

And somehow, it’s our fault.

We deserve it.

Because that makes “healthy” people feel better somehow.

I guarantee there are people with long covid who died in alone in their beds three weeks ago and nobody even noticed.

This is what “society” has become.