Now more than ever people have been conditioned to see disability as a moral failing. They believe people “deserve” their chronic illness or that they could “choose” to be better if they really wanted to.
This type of just world fallacy has always existed, because it enables people to move through life assuming nothing bad will ever happen to them as long as they’re “good people”.
It’s untrue, but as we’ve seen over the last five years most people have no problem swallowing lies if it helps them sleep better at night.
The reality is disability comes for almost everyone eventually. Unless you die suddenly and young, you will likely experience disability eventually.
You will have to face the fact that you are now one of the “others” that you looked down upon.
You will realize that no amount of “trying harder” can make you better. You will mourn your previous life.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We can stop blaming people for their illnesses and start helping them.
We can choose to wear a mask to protect our health and the health of others. We can clean the air. We can stay home when sick.
We can lobby governments for better COVID policy AND better social supports for disabled people.
We can demand accountability and transparency. It’s not too late.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-arctic-plague-ship-that-disabled
#chronicillness #disability #ableism #longcovid #mecfs #spoonie #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2
This type of just world fallacy has always existed, because it enables people to move through life assuming nothing bad will ever happen to them as long as they’re “good people”.
It’s untrue, but as we’ve seen over the last five years most people have no problem swallowing lies if it helps them sleep better at night.
The reality is disability comes for almost everyone eventually. Unless you die suddenly and young, you will likely experience disability eventually.
You will have to face the fact that you are now one of the “others” that you looked down upon.
You will realize that no amount of “trying harder” can make you better. You will mourn your previous life.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We can stop blaming people for their illnesses and start helping them.
We can choose to wear a mask to protect our health and the health of others. We can clean the air. We can stay home when sick.
We can lobby governments for better COVID policy AND better social supports for disabled people.
We can demand accountability and transparency. It’s not too late.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-arctic-plague-ship-that-disabled
#chronicillness #disability #ableism #longcovid #mecfs #spoonie #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2
The Arctic Plague Ship That Disabled A Best Selling Author
In August more than one hundred writers, musicians and artists converged on Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town, before setting sail around Svalbard, a group of islands in the Arctic circle.Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
