Disabled people have warned for years that embracing eugenicist Covid policies and discarding vulnerable people (and children!) would lead to escalating fascism and destroy what's left of public health and common decency.

It's simply not possible to make a conscious choice every day to put other people's lives at risk and not have it impact you in a profoundly negative way.

Years of politicians and leaders telling us that the vulnerable don't matter, that they will fall by the wayside, that they died because they were 'sick anyways' has changed us. And not in a good way.

It's time to think about what comes next. How we can resist, unite and fight back. We can't keep going down this road.

The hatred may have started with disabled and marginalized people - but it won't stop with us.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/how-did-we-get-here-and-what-comes

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How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?

Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?

The Disabled Ginger

@broadwaybabyto I just can't over how fast we went from "we're all in this together" to "fuck you, if you're vulnerable stay home and stop reminding me about covid with your mask."

The trajectory doesn't surprise me so much as the speed with which it happened.

@cferdinandi same here. The speed is shocking. And the lack of resistance in general. I thought more people would do the right thing. Maybe not the majority - but more than a very small minority.
@broadwaybabyto I certainly didn’t expect the left in general and accessibly advocates specifically to abandon masks so immediately and abruptly.