solarbird | Decades, and the impact still hasn't begun to be measured (Reply)

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I've been saying 20-35% of those infected with COVID have organ damage, and it's the *cardiac* damage that has me one small step from total panic attack.

I was born with congenital heart disease among other medical conditions, and had open heart surgery in 2017 for the repairs that surgery could do. I know very well, from experience, that the USA is *not* accommodating of variable disability limitations.

By anything ANYONE considers important, we don't even have sufficient handicapped parking for all the people with newly acquired disabilities, let alone the rest of any accomodations or assistance people will need.

There was an American executive who killed himself because of the stress associated with COVID acquired tinnitus. I've been living with THAT since a childhood fever forty years ago.

Emotionally Complex Reactions are running through the online handicapped or disabled community:

1) We told you so.
2) There isn't enough support now, for those disabled people who were recognized before the pandemic.
3) Too many people were saying we "deserved" our disabilities, or that we weren't "trying" hard enough. Now many people who minimized these problems, have these problems, TOO.
4) We BLEEPING told those people ridiculing us, "You aren't strong enough to survive like the people you're calling weak. Now who's weak?!?"

One measure of a civilization is how they treat those without 100% ability. I don't know if the United States of America has EVER been civilized.

Send cheerful memes, I'm stuck between cynicism and depression lately.

As a society, we may eventually envy those who died during COVID, because survival with the approximate rate of disability is going to get extremely difficult for the entire culture.