Black text on white background. Transcribed text: In 2020, it seemed possible that societal norms were shifting—health and wellness services went online, folks began working from home, gatherings got smaller, and masks were normalized. Yet as the years passed, as airline companies demanded that flights stay full, as real estate companies and employers across fields insisted folks come back into the offices they’d left, as the CDC shifted its guidelines (if you’re sick, stay home for two weeks; no, five days, no, three days…), as government stipends dried up, as mask mandates were dropped, as COVID strains mutated, as RSV and monkeypox entered the picture, as flu season rolled back around, as US governmental bodies held televised proceedings with unmasked officials, the message became clear: COVID safety is no longer a priority. Alice Wong Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

There were so many possibilities for a better world and then they were cruelly and deliberately snatched away from us.

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