#if you think you're radical but you're not masking then your radicalism includes eugenics and that just makes you a goddamn nazi

[anarchotahdigism]

"It’s interesting how often people cite “CDC guidance” as their reason for unmasking. Although the CDC has absolutely participated in and cosigned the mainstream minimizing of the illness, even the CDC still acknowledges that vulnerable people are at risk from COVID infection. They simply encourage the public to let those people die.

During an interview with the BBC in the fall, Dr. Fauci famously said aloud “You’ll find the vulnerable will fall by the wayside. They’ll get infected, they’ll get hospitalized, and some will die.” Should he have characterized any other vulnerable group this way (“You’ll find Native people will fall by the wayside,” “You’ll find trans people will fall by the wayside,” “You’ll find Black people will fall by the wayside,” “You’ll find women will fall by the wayside”) there would surely have been an almighty backlash. But to say medically vulnerable people must die so the rest of us may have brunch indoors does not beget such a reaction- never mind that all the above-named groups- Native people, trans people, Black people and women- are at a higher risk for Long COVID, and other poor outcomes from COVID." ... "The move to frame the requirement of a public safety measure- no different from requiring seatbelts, helmets, pants and shoes in public- as a violation of bodily autonomy came directly from groups like the Atlas Network, which, as you might gather from its Ayn-Rand-worshipping name, opposes all public regulation. Meanwhile, we continue to violate the bodily autonomy of disabled people by making participation in public life contingent on accepting forcible, continual reinfections. Since Biden’s COVID normalization campaign, MAGA-style rhetoric about how disabled people should “stay home forever” and how they are “useless” and “weak” has absolutely infiltrated left spaces. Many disabled people, in fact, are effectively “staying home forever.” They are shielding themselves from a disease that may kill them, and certainly would likely lower their baseline health, and have been for years. Meanwhile, the pleas of these incredibly isolated people for the bare minimum of solidarity- please at least mask up indoors when not eating or drinking- are ignored because that is apparently too difficult for the mental health of abled people." ... "A last point I will address, I did see questions about how we are supposed to “force” people to mask. Disabled people, vulnerable people, and left groups generally do not have the power of the state. We are not going to be engaging in “policing,” because nobody is going to end up in jail, physically hurt, on probation, or with limited job prospects because of our community care. Simply write “masks required” on your event invites, distribute masks wherever possible (contact your local Mask Bloc!), and do your best to spread information while modeling good praxis by masking yourself. For the most part, people are following the crowd. They will do what the majority is doing, and many will be happy to mask if it is normalized instead of stigmatized.

A left that purges its spaces of everyone who values community care, everyone who is willing to experience a minor inconvenience for the well-being of another, everyone who thinks it’s all of us or none of us, is a drastically weakened left. A left that does not incorporate disability praxis is drastically limiting its own scope and ability to be effectual. A left that mocks vulnerable groups and seeks to justify harm to them is not grounded in real justice and has only a superficial understanding of its own aims. Join us in masking, keep your comrades safe, and relish the beauty of avoiding illness while knowing you did your part to protect others. It’s a good feeling at the end of the day, I promise you that."

[anarchotahdigism]

So wild so few of y'all have noted that the more determined protests and direct actions have had significantly more people masking and in quality respirators because they actually have some real solidarity and real commitment to resisting genocide. It's not just about fooling facial recognition like some of y'all seem to think.

Biden has killed over a million people with COVID but y'all still think you can participate in one genocide to end another

if you claim to care about any genocide, you should be masking the entire time you are in public.

Refusing to mask when able is eugenics and you're actively participating in the genocide and oppression of disabled people and people of color and poor people.

I see just how silent y'all are about the literal millions dead of COVID while assuring yourselves you are good people doing your best.

The IOF banned all COVID mitigation efforts for occupied Palestinians including PPE, antivirals, vaccines

it destroyed the only Gazan COVID testing facility and the only treatment facility

You can't genuinely claim to care about the plight of Palestinians and be complicit in the genocide of others with covid, emulating the occupation you claim to despise.

It's been years of an unmitigated nightmare for everyone disabled. Stop fueling our deaths just so you can feel better about yourself in the moment. Stop being the danger that keeps us away from radical and queer and public spaces.

COVID will disable and kill you too. You're not better than us.

Show some fuckin solidarity and commit to masking. It's still a deadly pandemic. Act like it.