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I was 34 when I first got it March 2020. I have no other health issues. I am not overweight. Covid fucked me up. My lungs were messed up for six months. I had long Covid for a year. My lungs are still not the same. I couldn’t smoke weed again if I wanted to (I was not a smoker at the time, but I did when I was younger). Then I got it two more times before vaccines were widely available. I’m a shell of the energy I had before, and I really feel like it did something to my brain
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It's not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn't somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/independence-is-an-ableist-myth-unlocking-the-power-of-community-in-healing/
https://www.theswaddle.com/how-societys-fixation-on-independence-as-a-universal-goal-excludes-disabled-chronically-ill-people
Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
I know you probably don't mean it to but the idea that it's better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn't mean sick and disabled peoples' lives don't have value.