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kateviolette.com • 201 days ago

I would be glad if everyone who considers me a friend, IRL or pocket, to please read this and internalize what it means.

Reposted from Julia Doubleday

New from me:
Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled people

"Immunocompromised people are under constant siege, with levels of disease unseen in modern times being normalized in all public spaces."

Read here:

t.co/3LtA3YECyG

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kateviolette.com•201 days ago

"At this point I genuinely do not expect that I will ever be able to eat in a restaurant or drink in a bar again; I don’t particularly think about it anymore. I am more concerned about COVID exposures on flights to see loved ones and particularly, in needed upcoming surgeries in medical settings."

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

While you cosplay normal, I'm putting off an ENT visit I've sorely needed for months because I can't risk getting covid during a nasal scope procedure.

How is that ok? How do you justify to yourself that your right to eat inside at a restaurant (etc) is more important than my right to medical care?

afthescientist.bsky.social•201 days ago

Yeah i really need more dental care. While my dentist and staff wear masks (great!), others getting care obviously cannot.

I hate these calculations we have to make so much. ☹️

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

I understand that is probably hard to hear because you consider yourself a good person who would never do such a thing. You don't *want* disabled people to be disappeared from society, it's just an unfortunate side effect completely out of your control. 🤨

deborahbuddingphd.bsky.social•201 days ago

I’m still anxiously taking Covid tests after my podiatrist visit. I’ve decided to stop going to follow up appointments it’s just not worth it

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

Yeah, I really don't know what to do about this ENT visit I need.

I think my plan is to: emphasize my immunocompromised risk, ask if recent exposures/symptoms, ask the doctor to wear the N95 I'll bring to offer, ask to run a purifier / open a window for several minutes before I take my mask off.

marie-fleur.bsky.social•201 days ago

I do all that ! Except that doc usually propose to mask if they see us come in in N95.
My recent answer : "Window's open, I have 6 doses in me, and my own N95 - I don't think that damn virus stands a chance" - Nurse laughed

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

You'll blame the government's failure instead of taking responsibility for your own choices.

If you don't see yourself as having any responsibility to helping *not murder* your neighbors--what's left that any of us owe anyone in society?

Is that really the world you want to live in?

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

I repeat: Is this the world you want to live in?

No?

Then start building the one you want to see, with your own choices.

Stop mourning a government response that's not coming anytime soon--bc the reason the gov't doesn't have to care, is bc they convinced all of you it was ok to not care.

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

Government is made up of individuals. Government doesn't do the right thing unless it's forced to.

Start forcing it. Start applying pressure.

allisonwgood.bsky.social•201 days ago

The spouse saw Fauci at the grocery store recently and it’s a good thing I wasn’t there

kateviolette.com•201 days ago

oh yeah I would've decided "welp here goes my energy budget for the day, doing my civic duty to make sure that man never knows a moment's peace in public again"

allisonwgood.bsky.social•201 days ago

That’s what my mom always did when I was on the same flights home as Louisiana senators. I feel it’s my responsibility.

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