Notices by Trekhausen (she/her) (trekhausen@todon.eu), page 3

This is again sadly not surprising, eugenics and Social Darwinism has shaped and continues to shape the government response - or lack of - to the ongoing pandemic. It also demonstrates how central these ideologies are to capitalism.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-destroy-economy-for-people-will-die-anyway-johnson-said-to-have-asked/

#CovidInquiry #CovidIsNotOver #BorisJohnson #AntiCapitalism

Some agitating comments about the pandemic being over or no longer a 'global health emergency' aside, this article helps highlight the daily reality of living with Long-Covid and the lack of treatment alongside problems with gaslighting, including medical gaslighting.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-covid-uk-coronavirus-hospitals-b2435701.html

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Disability #DisabilityJustice #CovidInquiry #NotRecovered

The article also raised awareness of a GoFundMe fundraiser for a Long-Covid and ME/CFS billboard campaign, with the first going up in Bournemouth this week (pictured below).

This is great, and I am so glad it mentions ME/CFS and Long-Covid; the many years of abuse, mistreatment, minimising and ignoring that people with ME/CFS have experienced is sickening.

More on the fundraiser here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/billboards-for-long-covid-and-mecfs

#LongCovid #MECFS #CovidIsNotOver #Disability #DisabilityJustice #NotRecovered

The UK government is consulting on it's proposed changes to the Work Capability Assessments (WCA) and this closes on Monday the 30th of October.

Below are links to help with submitting a response to oppose these dangerous, ideologically driven BS proposals - please share and submit if possible.

WCA proposal overview: https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/universal-credit-uc/wca-changes-news

Points to consider to help with completing a WCA consultation response: https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/wca-consultation-points-to-consider
"The most important thing is to tell the DWP whether or not you are in favour of the idea of making the WCA much more difficult to score points for. You don’t have to give detailed answers or answer every question – just pick one or two points to make."

Template submission examples: https://dpac.uk.net/2023/10/template-response-to-the-wca-consultation/
and
https://meassociation.org.uk/2023/10/me-association-the-work-capability-assessment-consultation/

#NoMoreBenefitDeaths protest on Monday:
https://dpac.uk.net/2023/10/protest-against-dwp-proposals-to-tighten-the-wca-12-pm-monday-30-october/

More background information regarding the proposed long-term changes to WCA: https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/why-are-people-so-worried-about-the-abolition-of-the-wca

#Disability #DisabilityJustice #ChronicIllness #LongCovid #DWP

"Even though nearly 60 per cent of Covid-related deaths across the UK were of disabled people – with this reaching 68 per cent in Wales – Davies said there had been “no sense of national scandal” and few questions asked by the media, with “zero coverage” of the high death rate so far during the Covid public inquiry."

More here:
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/media-must-be-pressured-to-stop-disability-discrimination-conference-hears/

Any call and related action to return to "normality" against science and what is actually happening, furthers ableism and eugenics.

#CovidIsNotOver #DisabilityJustice #CovidInquiry #Ableism

This also helps illustrate the need for media by the people for the people, which this fantastic and invaluable article by @MediaActivist for @Freedom_Press explores and calls for:

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/15/mutu-network-challenges-media-moguls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mutu-network-challenges-media-moguls

#MutualAid #Media #MutuNetwork #Mutu

This is sadly not a surprise:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-long-covid/

This narrative, still, is shaping treatment, provision, and how people act and communicate regarding #COVID and #LongCovid. For instance, the way so many have 'moved on' and act as though the pandemic is over reinforces this narrative as it makes it easier, and actually more convenient, to forget us Long-Covid sufferers alongside acting in a way where you aren't concerned about yourself or others getting Long-Covid. Some examples in toots to follow...

#CovidIsNotOver #DisabilityJustice #CovidInquiry