The part with the Mercedes had me cracking up! 🤣 😂

Also I thought he was more late 60s early 70sbut he is only 59! These youngins thinking that age is oooold?(I am not that old...in my 30s btw)

There are many essays talking about the intersections of disabilities and other aspects that are oppressive. And in the last essay Disability Solidarity it talks about how within the Black Lices Matter movement it ignored the Disabled/Deaf folks in their communities and at times while fighting for them erasing their disability.

I also think of the essay before this when it talks about the climate crisis and how disabled and queer folks get left behind and yet these communities will come together in crises to help each other.

My frustration with how things are currently is how easily people stopped caring once our government told us that the pandemic was over. Without fact checking. Without realizing or possibly even caring that it was a lie. Disabled, immune compromised and elderly people are continuing to be sacrificed. Again being left behind and erased from the conversation. This isn't just about lives, it is also about the environment. We are destroying our planet while destroying our health and those around us. Masks are a easy tool to make sure everyone who needs and desires can be in public spaces. Masks assure that people who cant wear masks are protected. Masks lowers significantly your own personal exposure rate and 100% protects others from being exposed by you. Covid itself is a disabling disease. We should not want to harm ourselves and others yet we allowed that lie appease us for what? Our personal comfort? I could and would never be comfortable with the knowledge that I was causing harm in any way when I had the tools and ability to not do so. I also find it frustrating how people who claim to be fighting against abelism etc were one of the first to drop wearing a mask. Whether or not you believe the pandemic is over, it is fact that illness(not just covid) significantly dropped when wearing masks. We are seeing previously dormant viruses coming back(like the measles) because we are allowing this virus to continue to spread(and mutate becoming stronger in different variants) and is also harming our planet. Please, if you want to be intersectional in your fight, and are able, if you want to help people to feel safer in public spaces(and not continously cause harm to self) please wear a mask. It is not too late.

Just a thought i saw someone speak yesterday on how her cardiologist said that if she was exposed and got covid she would die. She cannot afford exposure and because od that even going to the er or doctors office is a risk that she cannot afford to take. And with my own parents, one immune compromised the other elderly and both at risk, it is always there, will we be exposed today and if so will I have my parents?

What do you think is the reason for why the author will at times use quotation marks for when they are speaking and at other times, not using them? Because I find it interesting and confusing...it doesn't really take away from the reading, but I don't know what the purpose is for.