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Seeing people directly around me make the willful choice to actively endanger my life as a high risk, disabled person hurts the hardest. The state is killing us, yes, but completely removing responsibility from individuals isn’t a meaningful way to get back at it. It’s just harm. https://twitter.com/_pem_pem/status/1356244858789310467
Honestly, I think threads like this are just useless. They’re posted every day and really tangibly do nothing but remove agency from us as individuals, within a larger collective, to make the choice to eliminate personal harm to the maximum amount possible.
Our organizing seeks to destroy the capitalist state responsible for the pandemic’s mass murder. We want full liberation of all oppressed people. But are we committed to ensuring the ability of COVID high risk people directly around us to live? By and large, the answer is no.
What is the purpose of doing solidarity work and speaking on the great harms the pandemic disproportionately places on people when you yourself have not taken a stand to do all it takes, within your power, to protect those very same people?
This is not a “no ethical consumption under capitalism” situation. Your choice to actively flaunt COVID guidelines (obviously, excluding essential work only) is not necessary for survival. It’s completely possible know for sure that you yourself are not an active danger.
And I can’t understand why any supposed radical, leftist, or “pro-worker” progressives would not do everything in their power to assure that. How can you be for the people, or for the workers, when you’re actively endangering them? How can you accept that you could kill someone?
