Disability activist Imani Barbarin made an important connection between Covid precautions and genocide.
In this Tiktok video she explains why "It's wild that people think they can support Palestinians as they're being disabled without disability justice":
@crutches_and_spice De@th does not follow disabled people, nondisabled people carry it with them to us. #greenscreenvideo @mawd ✯ ♬ original sound - Crutches&Spice ♿️ :
Here's the first half if you don't want to click on the 3 minute video. She starts with another vid admonishing people who support Palestine but don't mask indoors:
"Once people from Gaza and Palestine evacuate the genocide, the greatest tool Israel has to continue that genocide is you. The greatest tool Israel will have to commit ethnic cleansing continuously outside of those borders is you. And I mean that quite literally. Unless you think that a country committing ethnic cleasing and genocide hopped to when it came to making sure that Palestinians had Covid vaccines. Everyone who's coming out of Gaza, whether physically or mentally, will have some sort of disability. For every one person killed in Gaza, there are at least three that are permanently disabled, and disabled people have lesser health outcomes. Not to mention that every single Palestinian that is in Rafah right now is in hugely dense populated settings, and diseases, and Covid especially, are killing them. . . . Every single person that is stuck in Rafah right now, that is around thousands if not millions of other people, will have diseases and illnesses running through their systems. And if they get the opportunity to evacuate, they will have extremely compromised immune systems and will likely experience discrimination, particularly in western countries, not just racially but because they're now disabled. . . . It's why they bomb hospitals because people are already sick when they're there. Stop making people sick."
She also appeared briefly in an excellent news segment from Al Jazeera on Long Covid (24 min.) which looks at the reality of living with Covid for a growing number of people.
Long Covid steals your future and the plans of your family and any finances you might have. It brings the most harm to the most vulnerable, which includes refugees coming to our country. If you care about the genocide happening overseas, then you should care about them here, too. So start wearing a well-fitting N95 when you're in public places.
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