The intersection of puritanism & #capitalism creates an incredibly insidious, toxic form of #ableism.
Push through the pain. Work through your illness. Keep going through your burnout.
Puritanism tells you that this is virtuous, and makes you a good person. Capitalism requires overwork for your survival.
Pair this with a pandemic, and you've got a nasty escalation of eugenics.
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Because when you keep going thru sickness... You get everyone else sick. Some will not survive. Some will become disabled.
And then those disabled people will get even more sick as they try to keep up "normalcy" while chronic illness tells them to slow the fuck down.
You can't afford to take a day off work... but you REALLY can't afford to lose your job because of chronic illness.
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I got a concussion in 2015, my first semester of grad school, and it took seven months to recover because I would rest up to a point and then decide I was fine and try to push through the pain.
Most people want to get back to regular exercise after a COVID infection, but this is the WORST thing you can do. Significant physical rest is required even after most symptoms subside. Exercise at this critical time is poisonous. You need REST.
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