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[-] macabrett@hexbear.net 163 points 2 years ago

I want to share my experience as a disabled person, because I think it's very easy to simply not notice our non-existance:

I don't exist anymore. I'm a hermit. It's been years since I've done anything in public. I go to the rheumatologist, I go to a lab to get blood tests, and once a year I get an x-ray to make sure I don't have TB. I don't do anything else. There's about a two week period where being outside isn't some unbearably high or low temperature that exacerbates my condition.

Please care about covid. Just, please. Do it for people like me if that helps you, but mostly do it for yourself. This virus can make you like me and it's miserable (I was sick before Covid, but Covid is known to trigger autoimmune conditions which are the primary cause of my suffering).

[-] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 years ago

Since the beginning of the pandemic, my biggest fear hasn't been to catch the virus, but to spread it, especially to my immunocompromised relatives. You'd have to see when I tell that to people; they look at me weirder than if I answered "yes" to their mocking "afraid of COVID?" ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[-] Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

If more people thought like you I could have a life again. I'm severely immunocompromised and COVID almost killed me when I caught it a year ago

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