For over a decade, I& #39;ve had access to the treatment that makes my life not just worth living, but possible to live

As long as COVID is endemic, I will not be able to get that treatment. Those of us who are chronically ill want this over more than the "protestors" do.

But I want this over in a way that doesn& #39;t wreck the economy, doesn& #39;t swamp our medical system, and doesn& #39;t kill millions of us.

Those "protestors" in Washington have the luxury of believing you can protest the existence of a virus. I don& #39;t.

[cn suicide planning]

A little more than a decade ago, out of sheer desperation, I sent a msg to a researcher at a quatrinary care center. When I got the reply, telling me to come in, I stopped my backup planning for ending my own life – because there was another option.

The "protestors" don& #39;t want this over more than I do.

The ways in which chronically ill patients are getting fucked over are too many to count