There’s a parallel in denialism of COVID risk to AIDS in the 80s and early 90s. It was denied and ignored, by various government as it was perceived to be only killed and affecting gay people, and implicitly to that view, that was a good thing.
With COVID, there is a view that it’s only an issue for vulnerable folks, and, implicit to that view is that this is a good thing.
The ableism that folks have tied up in the denial around this is an ugly thing.
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