So I removed my thread last night that quote-tweeted the guy spitting all over the elevator buttons in his building - so as not to encourage the pile on. Because aside from the ugliness and likelihood of harm, this isn't a 'one person' problem - which was point of my thread.

There are multiple things that can and do motivate people to behave in ways that are harmful towards others. One of the problems is we group all those together. Crimes of desperation are not the same as people who get off on idea of hurting or putting other people's lives at risk

And ofc everyone jumped on the 'maybe he is mentally ill' bandwagon which is so unhelpful and based on nothing but 'he did a thing I wouldn't do.'

The reality is this is problem that is likely happening all over the place. In my building it happens all the time not just now.

Which is *why* I have been tweeting for weeks about the government and social housing operators needing to make certain that high risk folks - especially those of us who have no option but to use elevator - have mail and garbage pick-up provided.

You can scream and shout and extract your pound of flesh from this one man but it won't reduce the risk I and others face every time we leave our apts which we are forced to under the current design and non-existent support for our needs.

Don't you find it at all interesting that the tweet of one man spitting on the elevator buttons went viral, got picked up by the media and is being discussed widely - meanwhile my tweets explaining this is happening & need for response got maybe a dozen 'likes'?

I hate to tell you all but you ARE part of the problem. You gravitate to this spectacle and opportunity to focus your frustrations and talk about how *you* would never do such a thing - but have zero interest in DOING anything to make sure policy/support is put in place WE NEED.

I blame govt. I blame media and I blame everyone who retweeted that tweet but doesn't give af about the fact that it's not just one man or one building and that the govt is doing NOTHING to make it possible for those of us who live in these buildings & are high risk to stay safe!

I am literally just asking govt and social housing operators to make it possible for me to do the thing experts are telling me to do - stay the fuck home. Stay the fuck home is pointless if I have to go down hallway where I'm coughed on, get on elevator with snot, urine...

They finally this week washed the hall floor. Great. But that is clean for as long as it takes for next person to do whatever. Elevators. Ugh. I've seen people literally pick their noses and wipe it on the wall and button while waiting.

I don't know the solution long term to this - other than I personally have been pointing out for years that housing wheelchair users in buildings they can only exit via elevator = assuming it's OK for us to die in a fire. So maybe this finally sinks it in to some people.

But short term I am not even kidding when I tell you how many times I've considered throwing my garbage out my window and hoping between time of release and landing no one walks under. But then I know I'd be dealing with cops so it's all freaking gonna end with me in danger.

Put policies in place that actually respond to the needs that people have not the ones *you* (person not in that situation) think they do.

I also deleted another thread because it was too identifying so let me try a more generic version: No middle class lady living in a house with unthreatened income who faces heightened risk from Covid-19, our situations are not "exactly the same."