I've been trying to not lose my temper on educating folks on #Covid, but I realize that I have every right to be angry on this. I've been in isolation for three years now.

We need to be able to talk about how the lack of covid precaution is a form of eugenics, and that eugenicist policies is rooted in the marriage of white supremacy + ableism. If we can't discuss this, then we can't ever dismantle the systems of harm killing, disabling, and isolating so many of us.

Leftists in particular need to stop putting their feelings first, sit down, and listen to the words said here.

Lack of Covid Precautions creates a space where Covid can easily spread. This infects more people and puts their lives in danger. This action is rooted in denial of Covid's very real danger, and that denial complicity with eugenicist policies. That's a very hard truth for folks to swallow, and I get that, but if folks cannot grapple with that truth, then how can we ever build a better world?

Denialism indirectly kills people and causes severe harm to individuals and communities. Lack of Covid precautions indirectly kills and disables people. The dropping of covid precautions and mitigations by many governments is eugenics and it kills and disables many. They kill and disable because these actions spread Covid, and Covid kills and disables people. These are facts not opinions.

Instituting Covid Mitigations does require work, but saving lives and not contributing further to mass death and disablement ought to matter more than people's feelings and desire to 'save on work.'

We must, if we wish to build a better world, change our behaviors and normalize Pandemic mitigations. That's the only just path forward, and to try to fight normalizing pandemic mitigations is to side with eugenicists. Yes, most people don't want to believe they are complicit or side with eugenicists, just as people are very reluctant to admit when they are being racist, as they see eugenicists as pure evil and no one wants to view themselves as evil.

But that is a form of denialism. It denies the reality that the actions we do influence and impact other people. Our actions lend support - whether we wish to admit it or not - to others who either fight for justice/accessibility/equity or fight for eugenicist/racist/ableist policies. None of our actions exist in a vaccum. We influence and are influenced by society and our communities.

People have the capability to do great good and great harm. We are never fully good or fully bad. Our complexity, our internalized bigotry, our wants/needs, our feelings, our actions all play a role in who we are and how we present ourselves to others. Examining internalized bigotry is hard and scary, and I get that, but it must be done otherwise no growth can happen and we stagnant. That stagnation tips us into denialism of our roles and impacts on others, which then perpetuates (whether we are conscious of it or not) the oppressors and the harm they cause.

It can be powerful and life changing to be willing to say: I am wrong. I did cause harm. I want to do better. I am going to learn about this and change my actions to do better.

Calling out the actions we do by naming exactly what they are is how we can recognize the harm done. It is how we can learn what to examine, find ways to examine it, and then change our actions to do better.

Words matter. Words often need to be precise for us to best understand the complexity and nuance of a situation.

For Covid, we don't have the luxury of time.

Covid Mitigations and precautions save lives, that is a fact. We need Leftists in particular (but all people) to be willing to acknowledge the harm they've done when they've relaxed covid mitigations/precautions, and we need them to be willing to grow and do better. To be willing to change their actions in order to be more accessible, more just, and more willing to save as many lives as possible.

#CovidIsNotOver #PandemicMitigations #Pandemic #WhiteSupremacy #Eugenics #Justice #DisabilityJustice #DismantlingSystemsOfOppression