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roanoke9 wrote

Prioritizing covid precautions is good idea. Confronting reality is a good idea. Expecting "the left" to do anything at all is probably not. Abolishing all hierarchy is quite compatible with mitigating effects and causes of pandemics though. I would be interested to hear your definition of "the left".

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ghost OP wrote

Totally agree.

I personally don’t have a definition for “the left” and I think the article’s author might be defining it as the line between libs and demsoc’s.

But I’m also not really here for my fellow anarchists who think their actions (not masking in public) don’t kill and disable people. That don’t mean I support ANY kind of mandate, but I definitely see this ableism for what it is.

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roanoke9 wrote

Yeah, that working definition seems to explain the article's stance.

  • I don't regard masking as infringing on anything but privelege masquerading as fake outrage. Mandates from the state are generally bad, but the misinfo campaign that made masking some kind of hill to die on for those who bought into it was far worse. It was like a feedback loop of bad reactions. I personally mask, try to abide by quarantine bubbles to the extent possible while somehow still obtaining food and keeping our house. I am unsurprised at the narrative of pretending it is over because the machine must be fed. Lost my union job (hundreds of irl customers per day literally holding them at bay with a cart to keep the distance no one was minding) over a dispute about lax covid procedures. Had store manager and union rep treat me like a madman for refusing to risk my life and the life of my wife for 12$ an hour. We're both high risk and got covid very early 2020. Went from excellent health to fair health possibly forever after that. I'm actually invisibly disabled (neurotype and mental "illness) but have been muddling through as if not because there is no recourse. Sorry for the rant. I feel like we're on the same page.
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ghost OP wrote

Yeah I relate… and I’m sorry this fuckery has worsened your health.

I’ve been disabled and chronically ill my whole life. The pandemic itself (or rather American society’s response to it) definitely made my ptsd way worse, and I just caught it a week and change ago and now it’s made my physical disability worse too.

At this point, I’m actually glad that it’s probably shortened my life because idk how much more of this I can take.

I’ll go down fighting, but I can’t imagine waiting until old age to do it.

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