No one, including me frankly, has really learned the lessons we should have learned from the pandemic. Heart wrenching but informative replies.

https://twitter.com/chr0nicallycute/status/1475544663159455745?s=20

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Failing our most vulnerable despite having all the resources - there really is no redemption for the West

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      To expand on this, I've been reading about how in the Eastern Bloc states, they did all sorts of good things to help vulnerable people. For example, in the GDR, if your child was disabled, you were given a larger home to accommodate them, more time off, and other resources. The vulnerable were better cared for. Not to mention objectively, the Eastern Bloc states were far ahead of the West at the time w/r/t women's rights and I'd argue well ahead of Western states in 2021.

      And what's sad is, I could go on about how great all this was to Americans (at least to most white, male, neurotypical and non-disabled Americans) and they will either discount these achievements as unimportant or actually criticize it as "government overreach" or a "waste of resources".

  • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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    3 years ago

    My wife was has EDS so she can't get the vax and was straight up told by her doctor she will definitely end up in respirator if she gets covid. In the past two years she's left the house maybe a dozen times. I have to act as her fire wall for pretty much any contact with the outside world and have to be super careful all the time myself.

    She's an extravert and this is killing her, perhaps literally with how bad the depression has gotten.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Oof, yeah, solidarity. My wife is immunocompromised and has some autoimmune issues that make covid pretty much guaranteed to land her in the hospital even with the vax so we're sort of in the same boat. Shit really sucks.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Hell is :maybe-later-kiddo: 's replicating into infinity telling you to vote for Biden or the big orange meanie will come back.

  • Kestrel [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    My elderly neighbor is immunocompromised and said back in Jan 2020 that she'd basically never be able to go in public or travel again. We thought she was crazy.

  • UlyssesT
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    2 months ago

    deleted by creator

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    Their fault for not being born right… or letting themselves get disabled. Disability is a moral failing

    -libs, probably

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    If you are immunocompromised, you are now supposed to have 4 total mRNA shots: 1st dose, 2nd dose, 3rd dose, and booster. So if your booster was your 3rd shot, you can get another.

    • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I knew someone who had cerebral palsy and lost a battle to pneumonia. Respiratory issues are prevalent in people diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

      Just being wheelchair ridden can lead to respiratory issues, even without something like cerebral palsy. Lack of activity means you might start developing respiratory issues due to no real fault of your own.

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    so Biden/Fauci did they numbers on blue counties vs red counties, and with the current approval ratings this is the strategy they came up with, kill off enough people in the 'right' places

    aka 'active harm reduction'

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    3 years ago

    When I told people that we must be willing to sacrifice thousands of the weak, children, and elderly to satisfy the bloodlust of the line gods, they looked at me like I was crazy. Who's crazy now?! All it took to get people on board was the grandfatherly leadership of Biden the lesser! Hail evil!