> It is beyond me how people can deny post viral syndromes.
If there’s anything the mass death and injury of COVID have taught me, it’s that there is pretty much no level of harm that can’t be justified with appeals to “they deserve it because X”, with X being whatever quality or characteristic allows someone to rationalize away the fundamentally random and widespread harm as being limited to an out-group. This should’ve been obvious to everyone from the HIV/AIDS crisis, but it’s bluntly apparent now.
If there’s anything the mass death and injury of COVID have taught me, it’s that there is pretty much no level of harm that can’t be justified with appeals to “they deserve it because X”, with X being whatever quality or characteristic allows someone to rationalize away the fundamentally random and widespread harm as being limited to an out-group. This should’ve been obvious to everyone from the HIV/AIDS crisis, but it’s bluntly apparent now.