Disabled people (among others) have been explaining this, documenting the impacts of this, and living with and barely surviving (or sometimes not) the results of this for a long time.

And now that everyone is aware this is the case, we are still ignored. Remarkable really. https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1253024226744795138

It's amazing how people who up until 6 weeks ago didn't think Canadian healthcare was critically underfunded are now certain they are experts in what needs to be done to fix it and are not in anyway interested in listening to the people who were warning them of this fact.

As long as you all could get your acute care covered you didn't mind that people with chronic illness were going without.

As long as there was no wait time for a knee replacement it didn't matter that mental health, dental, physiotherapy, eye and other care wasn't covered at all

My least favourite thing is watching the good crip and parents sidle up to power and be oh so grateful for considering their 'special needs' during the pandemic.

You all are missing the entire fucking point as usual. It's not that we need ableds to 'include' us - oh so sweet

It's that crips should be mother-fucking leading this thing.

Honestly these gestures of 'we did this thing for you because we know you have some extra special needs' make me rage in a very particular way. Ableds are not the saviours of crips. What a set up. Like men saving women from patriarchy. Spare me.

Just as feminism = a better world for everyone - including men - dismantling ableism is better for everyone including ableds.

We don't need any special favours from ableds allowing crips to be 'included' in their discussions about topics they just decided matter enough to blog about - topics that have been our entire fucking existence and that we literally wrote the book(s) about.