I’m Immunocompromised. I Know Ableism Is Oppression. We Need Disability Justice.
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I first heard the comparison when COVID-19 started to spread through my community: “It’s like a cold,” people would say. The comparison offered a familiar point of reference for a virus we are still in the process of understanding. But the more I heard it, the more it disturbed me. How can millions of people die from a virus that is just “like a cold”? When I myself caught COVID-19 in 2022...