Broadwaybabyto<p>“Let’s not kid ourselves, people who held eugenicist beliefs have always existed. Covid simply gave them permission to publicly express them. We went from being all in it together to sacrificing the elderly and the disabled because people wanted to ‘go back to normal’.”</p><p>My latest tells the story of my experience down the “wellness” rabbit hole after losing my Mom to cancer and nearly losing my life to medical neglect. </p><p>I genuinely believed that I could “cure myself”. When it became clear that wasn’t the case, my wellness friends abandoned me. </p><p>Told me I hadn’t tried hard enough. That I wanted to be sick. That I was “bad” for relying on medicinal and traditional medical care. </p><p>That experience shook me to my core. It exposed the eugenics beneath the false claims of caring. </p><p>It’s also why I believe Casey Means is exceedingly dangerous to the disability and chronic illness community. </p><p>They’re setting the stage to lay all blame on those who are sick, despite making policy decisions that create more illness in the first place. </p><p>It’s eugenics and it’s ramping up:</p><p><a href="https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-the-new-surgeon-general-pick" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disabledginger.com/p/why-the-n</span><span class="invisible">ew-surgeon-general-pick</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/surgeongeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surgeongeneral</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/caseymeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caseymeans</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/wellness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wellness</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a></p>