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   Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 20:04:59 JST Amadi Lovelace

   I was added to a group text this morning, with several cousins. Amadi, said they, you planned our family reunions before and it’s been more than 10 years, we think we should have another next summer. You have all the stuff from planning those first three, will you take the lead since you don’t work?

   I had to sit with that for a while.

   “Do you remember WHY I don’t work?”

   Sure, your disabled, chronically fatigued, immune compromised cousin will plan an event she can’t safely attend. Why not?🙄

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     Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 20:04:58 JST Amadi Lovelace

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     COVID is still real. There’s nothing indicating that next summer will suddenly be safe when it comes to this virus. I would love to see my extended family. Since the last time we’ve all been together, my mother has become the local family matriarch, of sorts. She’s the eldest in any case and would love to be able to see everybody, and there are children that none of us have met, but there’s no way to do this kind of thing safely, with people coming in from across the country.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 20:04:58 JST Amadi Lovelace

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     Because the abled world decided that COVID was over for them, COVID will seemingly never be over for some of us. All of the abled people who continue to whine about having to stay at home in 2020 (it was never lockdown, and I will never call it that) and how horrible it was to go without social interaction have pretty much ensured that some of us will never be able to socialize with anyone except through screens.

     Hospitals are reinstating mask mandates and they’re still not getting it.