DessertStormsDisabled people's exclusion from indoor spaces is a civil rights violation, not an annoyance
**NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life**...
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor
WidowsFavoriteSonEverybody’s a goddamn victim. Covid is only slightly more dangerous than automobiles, and the long-term disability rates from vehicle crashes far outstrips the damage due to long COVID.
Yet there you are, hopping in your car every day and not giving a fuck about the consequences.
Yet there you are, hopping in your car every day
the literal fucking point of the article is that no, disabled people aren't in fact free to not give a fuck about the consequences, we're forced to continue to isolate because ableists like you refuse to give a shit about our rights to exist in the world.
poo urns
So because there are risks in everyday life that the majority of us accept, we should do nothing to mitigate those risks because… vulnerable people don’t deserve to participate in large swathes of that life.
Your logic is unassailable 🤡
DarkNightoftheSoulI don’t drive my covid to work every day
Did we read the same article? This is a nuanced and empathetic personal anecdote. You’re angry that “the woman in the story” misses eating inside after spending the past 3-4 years doing everything she can to protect her husband from reinfection? And you’re angry that she thinks his anxiety and defensiveness have gone too far, and that he needs to reflect on that and at least try to move ever so slightly in her direction? You have a lot of anger, and it’s very misdirected here
Definitely a lot of barely-disguised aggrievement here.
livus@DessertStorms can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this isn't OC and that OP isn't the author of the piece.
My mistake on that if so, but OP is playing a role in perpetuating this narrative and still needs to hear this
CylusthevirusHey now, misdirected anger is like 25% of all social media content. What would we possibly do without it?
BunnyluxWhat a stupid fucking take. The NPR article is an empathetic opinion piece about maintaining your relationship while missing your old life.
ForestOrcaThank you for posting the Gauntlet article. I have several patients, and a few friends with LC. And I've had pushback on my relatively strict policies around avoiding infectious disease, especially viral respiratory infections like COVID, and Influenza. The medical establishment is only just beginning to acknowledge and from that to study and understand post-viral syndromes. We have a lot to learn, in regards helping those who have contracted post-viral syndromes. And we won't get to the solutions if we deny the existence of these longterm, disabling maladies. Keep talking, people, our best solutions come when we work together.