I’m glad you’re helping your friend. We need to be there for each other since our social structures, government, and “health”“care” system won’t do it otherwise. It seems like a lot of people are unaware of how close they are to disaster when it comes to how bad things are for disabled people in this evil system.
The government has abandoned us when it comes to public health. We’ve got to take care of ourselves and each other now. We’ve got to do what we can–wear a mask, a respirator if you can, filter your air, ventilate, avoid crowded places, use a nasal spray, vaccinate-- do as many of these as you can. Heart disease is something you want to avoid getting if you can. Please, protect yourselves and your loved ones. Covid is spread in the air and you can reduce your chances of getting it if you filter and ventilate your air and avoid sharing air with people when possible. Don’t give up. Each new infection carries the risk of permanent complications and it’s important to keep protecting your loved ones community. Every time you protect yourself you protect all of us. Even preventing one infection matters.
I don’t think they even give a fuck about building immunity. They have their rich people meds, their rich people antivirals, their rich people testing, all the rich people state of the art healthcare. Why would they care if we die? We die all the time from preventable things like cancer, war, environmental poisoning, etc. All they care about is harvesting all the value and labor they can before we die.
Please take care of yourselves, everyone. Covid is still going, still a threat, and can still kill or disable you and your loved ones. Please, do everything you can- wear a mask- an N95 or a KN95, filter your air with a hepa filter, ventilate your air, socialize carefully, get the vaccine, try to work remotely or at least away from other people if you can, use a nasal spray, avoid crowds. I know that not everyone can do these things but please do as many as you can. Assume that you and people around you are asymptomatically infectious, and take precautions as if that’s the case.
Don’t give up. Even a single case prevented is worth it. Even if you are exposed, if you can be exposed to a lower viral load that will be better- so precautions count. Think of your loved ones, your friends, yourself, your communities. You are protecting everyone each time you take protective steps. The government has failed us utterly and now it’s time to take matters into our own hands and slow this down as much as possible. The fewer people infected means that fewer variants develop. Fewer variants mean that future vaccines are more likely to protect us.
Getting disabled can happen to anyone. No matter your age or level of health, getting covid can make things worse. Some people get permanent conditions from covid, like heart problems, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. Please, do everything you can to protect yourself. Good health is temporary, and sometimes when you lose it it never comes back. If you can save yourself from a getting a permanent disability, you should.
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do in a genocide, the answer is whatever you’re doing now.
wwiii has started. Help people.
My country’s healthcare system
tw: sexual violence, forced birth
Soon they’ll tying people down to tables, assaulting people, and forcing them to give birth. Fascism is in full swing and is only going to accelerate from here. Constant grown and the insatiable thirst for power means that the rich and powerful demand babies to turn into coerced workers. More and more people are going to be forced to become pregnant and give birth. These horrors are going to be more and more normalized. This isn’t ok.
Yes. Just because something is normalized doesn’t mean it’s ok. Just because everyone around you believes something doesn’t mean it’s true. The media machine is notorious for picking up ongoing atrocities, turning them over, and pretending they’re done. They’re not done! The pandemic isn’t over, and leftists need to be more critical of the media and stand in solidarity with the working class in the face of the mass scale class violence being done against us. Covid-19 is being allowed to ravage the working class, and hurts our comrades of all intersections. It is disproportionately damaging to our bipoc comrades, our unhoused comrades, and our comrades with disabilities, and we should see it as one of the many fronts of the class war, an important front to be active on. We should never go along with the policies of the fashcap deathmill.
Why don’t you compare those numbers to the number of deaths caused by covid-19. Way more people have died or become disabled from covid, it’s not even close. https://ncov2019.live/data
I hope you can get paxlovid. Good luck, comrade. I hope you have a good recovery. [/gen]
Yeah. The propaganda machine has told them covid is not a problem anymore, and that’s what they believe. People are being brainwashed.
That’s really rough. I’m so sorry.
The “Covid is over” propaganda. Covid is not over. It is still killing people, still disabling people, still giving people lifelong autoimmune conditions and other long-term health problems. “Covid is over” Is code for “Go back to work so the capitalist class can reap the rewards of your labor, no matter how dead or disabled you become in the process.”
He should fire himself too, from the sound of it.
Just to be clear, women being constantly being belittled and treated as secretaries is discrimination based on sex, and it is extremely likely that they being sexually harassed in ways that you don’t see. There are tons of ways for bosses and coworkers to pull people aside, force people to stay late, or even pressure meetups outside of the workplace framed as business/mentoring lunches, to set up situations where they can say and do things that no one else will see or hear. Belittling people is often a practice that abusers use to wear down victims psychologically, to set the stage for ongoing and escalating abuse. Many abusers are very socially clever these days, and will go to great lengths to groom their victims into not realizing they are being abused, target people who need the job/reference/experience etc. and keep as much of the abuse as possible outside of official records like email, and even manufacture documentation in retaliation of the people they abuse, for example, creating false poor performance reviews, so they can dispose of victims when they are done and have a evidence in their own favor if there is a court case.
We also need lockdowns where people are supported in staying home long enough to eliminate the virus, regular and updated testing, updated vaccines, free high quality accessible healthcare, and changes to make workplaces safe - like letting people work from home; changing in-person work to be socially distanced, and unlimited paid time off so people can get medical care when they need it.
They’re preparing the public in case of Biden’s loss. They want liberals thinking “wow, Biden was unjustly robbed of the presidency” when he fails, not “I guess people didn’t vote for him because he’s a genocidal plague lord”.