Conversation

Talking about how #CovidIsNotOver and acting accordingly - such as wearing a mask - links into a broader political context of #solidarity, collective action, radical communal care, #intersectionality, and anti-hierarchy. Not doing these things contributes to a fear that many people - I'm very much one of them - rightly feel going into spaces dominated by an ideology tied to eugenics, health supremacy and ableism, and related practice. It also undermines movement for change, such as air filtration and safer workplaces alongside undermining #AntiCapitalist praxis in general, given pretending the pandemic is over is central to late stage capitalism and maintaining the status quo. It means that more people forget about us with #LongCovid, which means it gets easier for the state to keep minimising, gaslighting and ignoring us alongside go after us with sanctions and BS assessments. Covid awareness and safety alongside resistance to the normalisation of a mass disabling event should be central to radical praxis, but sadly it has been abandoned by so many on the left, which is depressing and isolating.