Thread by @LauraMiers

Once you accept 1) the old world is gone forever, 2) that individuals will be aggressively blamed for the record communicable disease, chronic illness, & premature death, & 3) sophisticated networks of propaganda & disinformation keep us all in line, life gets a lot easier. It's actually freeing. Creating a population of people with nothing to lose through extreme wealth inequality, mass downward mobility, & mass pandemic disease may have had some temporary perks, but the masses have become so beaten down, sick, & impoverished—unable to afford food & housing, or healthcare, while we're expected to navigate expensive, time-consuming mazes of bureaucracy JUST TO SURVIVE & our taxes fund war & genocide, it's all too much & people quit caring about the future.

Public perception is hopelessly warped. Many LongCovid patients & The Early Maimed have given up & accepted our fates—it’s not like we can acquire any meaningful healthcare from unmasked doctors who wholeheartedly believe Covid is a cold—but since society is forbidden from discussing the ongoing Covid pandemic, the public perceives it’s over, people aren’t getting LongCovid anymore, & everyone else will be spared forevermore. When people are finally disabled by Covid in Year 5 of the pandemic, they think there must be some mistake. The public TRULY believe the powers-that-be would tell us if the masses were still becoming disabled by Covid. I’m sorry but that hasn’t been true since 2021. This is a mass disabling event with no end. It’s only getting worse, but there’s no testing or data left to prove it. When Covid finally disables you, no it didn’t. What Covid? Where’s your data?

I quit arguing with people & demanding they acknowledge my Covid-related disability years ago because it was a waste of time & people don’t want to hear it. They want to hear lies & pleasant untruths because it feels better. While folks tell themselves LongCovid patients just have bad genes & bad bodies, those of us who are living it know no one will be spared. When even all of medicine hold erroneous and unscientific views about Covid and LongCovid, there’s nothing left to do but watch and wait, hoping we don’t rapidly disable everyone, except we aren’t even counting those disabled by Covid, so we wouldn’t actually know.