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
Failing our most vulnerable despite having all the resources - there really is no redemption for the West
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”.
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.
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.
It’s been rough. I hate to complain because I know its far worse for her but holy shit is care giver fatigue real. Stay strong sister.
She had the first one and ended up in the hospital over night with an antifalactant reaction. The lucky .002%
Hell is :maybe-later-kiddo: 's replicating into infinity telling you to vote for Biden or the big orange meanie will come back.
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.
