Never heard any follow ups on the taste thing, so I need answers

4 years since 2020. Time really flies when a catastrophic global event hits you in the face

  • DessertStorms
    6•11 months ago

    Others are finding existing issues that were already hard to navigate become near insurmountable. Many of us haven’t had regular healthcare in years due to lack of covid safety or the system’s complete overwhelm

    I am part of this group, I was already struggling to get the kind of in-home care I actually need (because social services are direly and deliberately underfunded), now I won’t even risk it because I know people won’t/can’t avoid bringing that shit in to my space. And that’s just to name one of so many impacts it has had…

    Otherwise I agree with everything else you’ve said, except that the government is failing, but only because I think they’re doing exactly as they want and expect to do, we’re (we being not only those already most vulnerable in society and to covid, but by extension the rest of the working class) just an after thought and acceptable collateral damage.

    I’ve been meaning to share this on its own, but it definitely belongs here too:

    https://donotpanic.substack.com/p/its-all-out-war-on-the-vulnerable

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      Thanks for the link, it’s a good piece. And I definitely agree on it being an intentional path by our government not a failing per se. It’s not just the disabled that are and always have been afterthoughts, it’s everyone. Covid’s lasting damage is well-known, but that’s your problem not theirs, they have mitigations in place for themselves and the best care available if needed.

      It’s very little but if you’re US based and want to remind your state officials that they’re killing people with their negligence, a group I organize with has a letter to send them about masking in healthcare. I really hope that this year we see actual progress on addressing covid instead of just ignoring it. We’re in the second highest ever surge currently, a lot of people are going to be sicker by November.

      • DessertStorms
        5•11 months ago

        It’s not just the disabled that are and always have been afterthoughts, it’s everyone. Covid’s lasting damage is well-known, but that’s your problem not theirs, they have mitigations in place for themselves and the best care available if needed.

        Well said. Accessibility and inclusion of disabled and vulnerable people has always benefitted society at large, but people are put under such pressure to “win”, never mind just survive, that they’ve completely lost sight of that (like you say - to their own detriment).

        Thank you too for the link, the fact that wearing masks in the healthcare sector is even up for debate, never mind something that needs to essentially be begged for, is enraging, though you’d be relieved? to know that here in the UK they aren’t mandatory either… And the infection and deaths numbers show it. We’re also expecting potentially the largest wave yet
        https://donotpanic.substack.com/p/four-years-later-two-million-infections?publication.

        There honestly are no words to express the frustration…