I have found solace so many times this year in this essay from Mia Mingus, I can’t even begin to tell you.

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence

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I have read this so many times and keep going back to it. I sent it to family and friends when they “got back to normal.” Instead of responding to it, they just stopped replying to me. I guess they do feel entitled to my death and are uncomfortable with that fact so chose to ignore me altogether.