Anytime I feel insecure about asserting my #covid19 precautions and boundaries, I remind myself that the person I'm asserting them with would, in all likelihood, abandon me if I got #covid and then it turned into #LongCovid.

I got a sense of how quickly people will lose interest in me when I could no longer be fun when I became seriously ill a little over a decade ago. In my case, I eventually got better after surgery and physical therapy, but I spent nearly three years in pain and exhaustion to get to that point. In those three years, very few people stuck around to help me.

It's also why I'm still so concerned about trying not to spread covid. I would never wish the debilitating pain and loneliness I experienced on anyone, and I don't want someone to end up with long covid because I carelessly infected them.

#CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #WearAnN95 #pandemic #ChronicIllness #DisabilityJustice