#since antivax shit was driven by ableist eugenecist conspiracy theorists terrified their children might become GASP autistic

[naamahdarling]

And like the AIDS epidemic, ain't shit getting done to mitigate this effectively.

This is a mass-disabling event and I hate to rub it in but disabled people warned everyone the minute the severity became known, even when there was barely faintest whisper yet of it having long-term effects. (Disabled folks suspected it first.)

And as as we all should remember, none of us are truly abled. That is a fundamentally temporary state. People are, more accurately, non-disabled. Because eventually, barring sudden death, every single human being becomes disabled eventually.

For keeps.

So maybe we should fucking care that this is going to cause so many goddamn problems for the rest of the lives of anyone living now.

I thought this might drive people to care what happens to us all eventually and cause positive change. I underestimated 1) how little people care about disabled folks, which you think would at LEAST provide motivation not to become one, and 2) how deeply people believe it could never happen to them.

Also 3) just how wilfully uninformed people are about science, and how knee-jerk denial of literally any scientific topic would become a point of pride with crab-bucket conservatives eager to pointlessly and stupidly rebel against anything that might help other people.

Anyway, you should listen to disabled folks on pretty much everything. Disabled folks are usually the canaries dying in the coal mines of society's shortcomings, except apparently a whole lot of people give more of a shit about actual birds. And at least miners acknowledge that things in the air can hurt you.

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