Fay 🏳️‍🌈

I got "mild" covid just over 6 years ago

it never got better, only worse

I've been ill 24/7 for 6 years

I've been housebound and alone 24/7 for 6 years

and it breaks my heart that so many people still do nothing to protect themselves and others from the risk of (long) covid, and are unwilling to support those of us already affected

because they can't imagine it will happen to them, can't imagine being disabled/chronically ill themselves

when you're healthy it's hard to imagine you too could be affected by chronic illness and disability

but the reality is that all of us are vulnerable, none of us are safe just because we don't deserve it happening to us, and all of us have a responsibility to keep each other safe

those that insist it "won't happen to them" and that they don't have any responsibility to prevent it happening to anyone else either are victim-blaming

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

Dutch health authorities:

• still ignoring (long) covid (after admitting they won't recommend masks because they don't want to prevent infections)

• keep insisting hantavirus requires close contact

• tell exposed people from the cruise to quarantine and mask for 6 weeks but refuse to bother checking if they do

I'm very reassured /s

@Kalshann@mastodon.social just fyi:

• the current Dutch government wants to reduce that to 1y

• people regularly go to work with covid/flu and infect others even though they could just stay home when sick

• if you become disabled as an adult and don't have employment at the time (e.g. you're in college like I was when I got long covid, or self-employed) you're fucked because there's no way to get disability benefits when you don't have a job