Chronic Illness
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for healthy people to share their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Respect the Group’s Purpose. It’s a support forum for people with chronic illness to vent and share and talk together. It’s not a place for healthy people to come and give their opinions.
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Back before COVID I went carless and just ordered grocery delivery and had similar poor experiences. One time the packer marked milk and all other brands as unavailable. I was fueled by pure spite when I caught a ride to the same store to take pictures of the very stocked refrigerators with their copious amounts of milk.. And finished my own damn shopping.
Yeah it seems to happen quite often…
I looked into it a bit. ABC did a documentary on this, and found that at least Coles have very strict time limits and schedules for packing online deliveries. They're timed while gathering items for orders and have "pick-rate targets"; for example 200 items per hour (3 per minute). So if you order, say, 6 things that are across the store from each other, they might decide that walking across the entire store multiple times would hurt their numbers too much. So, to avoid punishment, they just mark it as unavailable, send it off incomplete, and move on to the next order.
No idea if this applies to other stores, but it sounds hellish enough that I'd believe it in 2026. Somehow they designed a system where literally everyone suffers. I feel like I can't really blame the picker for working within the bounds of a system like that.