Anti. 🐘Aug 12, 2023

Woman suffering from Long COVID saw no other option than to end her life.

"Bei Exit schreibt man auf Blick-Anfrage allgemein: Man stelle fest, dass sich vermehrt Menschen, die unter #LongCOVID leiden, bei der Organisation melden."

Exit is one of the Swiss organisations that offer assisted suicide. I have also gotten a membership this last winter.

[https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/erst-im-mai-gab-sie-blick-noch-ein-interview-daniela-caviglia-56-verlor-den-kampf-gegen-long-covid-id18825593.html]

Daniela Caviglia (†56) verlor den Kampf gegen Long Covid

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Show threadAnti. 🐘Aug 12, 2023
Very few people seems to understand how humiliating it is having to beg for consideration and care, to be even taken serious with our awful disease. The organized abandonment we #LongCOVID sufferers experience every single day by politicians, media, our political communities, "friends' and family is often almost too much to take. Plus getting attacked, derided, coughed at when still wearing a mask. It is a relief to know to at least still have that option.
Show threadBegrudging RecluseAug 12, 2023

@antiaall3s I understand it. It makes me absolutely fucking furious that society is driving people to the brink that this seems the only way to get any relief from it. I hate it and I wish it wasn't that way and I blame so many people and doctors and governments. But I won't blame any patients taking this option. I understand it.

I can't coherently express how sad it makes me to lose fellow disabled and chronically ill to this. It's eugenics at play: refusing care, making disabled die, and upping the suffering so much that those who survive will feel so unwelcome and bad and desperate that they will take themselves out.

Humans are the cruelest beings. I wish we would all resist and remain on earth until our last possible breath out of sheer spite, but I know the suffering becomes too great for many. If only people cared.

Show threadAnti. 🐘Aug 12, 2023
@begrudging_recluse This! I am not there yet, but it does feel good to have that option. It's when the gap of what could have or even should have been = the people resisting the normalisation of this disease and instead building robust mutual aid and communal care structures, and what is = organized abandonment out of eugenic reasons and a return to fascism, when that gap becomes so unbridgeable, not many options are left. But for now, we keep fighting.
Show threadBegrudging Recluse
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Show threadAnti. 🐘Aug 12, 2023
@begrudging_recluse For now we keep fighting, but then, why would WE have to fight? It's not like people suffering from LC or ME/CFS have an abundance of energy!? Where is the radical left, who could build said structures? Oh, right, they are holding their gatherings without protective measures.
Show threadBegrudging RecluseAug 12, 2023

@antiaall3s I think men have barely shown up for women, white people barely fight for poc, and never has a high class person ever cared about a worker. The abled are not going to support us in significant ways, no matter how much they claim they're leftist and inclusive. It just fucking sucks that we have so little energy to do everything ourselves.

For now the disabled people with lots of energy are carrying us, as they have in the past, with trying to make things more bearable and accessible. I don't think it will ever be enough for a truly better world, but I feel strength in the knowledge that we have each other, and that we put this little energy we still have into carrying each other through for as far as we can. But I get that even with that, life remains nothing more than just painful survival for some.

Maybe it's not totally related, but I'm thinking of it now: last month I read 'Nebula Vibrations' by Annie Carl. It's a small sci-fi novella of only about 60 pages. I think the ending of the story gives such a feeling of gratification for anyone reading it who's sick or disabled. Stories like these keep me afloat too.