(cont’d) Maybe there are better ways to talk about this! But baseline, most people do not know it is even something they can still get, nor how potentially destructive to their personal and community health it is. Ask any disabled person, death is not the only barometer for harm.

(contd) that it has potential long term health consequences, is not even something on their radar, let alone something they can accept. It’s a collective trauma most everyone would like to move on from. Saying “at the height of COVID” does imply it still exists. (cont’d)

The problem is, the average person - not medically or science literate - literally thought COVID died when mask mandates were lifted, years ago. For most folks, “during COVID” means the VIRUS is past tense. Acknowledging you can still get it, (cont’d)

Life is random and we are fragile and the sooner nondisabled people make peace with that, the better.

Of course, now we’re five years deep in a pandemic that nondisabled people refuse to try to mitigate because they can’t handle the idea, so I don’t have a ton of hope.

Stifle the eugenicist inside your head. It’s killing people. Maybe even you.