A photo of Julia Doubleday’s conclusion to today’s newsletter, The Gauntlet: To review: state fails to control virus. State negligently allows people to become infected. State claims no one can be hurt by this virus. When people subsequently report being hurt by virus, state calls them liars. When people try to collect benefits, state denies them, then begins cutting them. When people try to access healthcare, state tells them to get back to work and runs propaganda campaign to paint them as lazy and dishonest. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that this framing- that people with Long COVID are lazy, that they are fakers, that they are crazy, and that they need to get back to work- has a clear place within the COVID normalization project and makes perfect sense when viewed as part of that larger political whole.
This is why it’s still 2021 to me.
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