Dealing with a pandemic as a nonbinary person
As the COVID-19 pandemic permeates its way across the globe like toxic right wing opinions at a Trump rally, the world’s largest media outlets hunker down to cover its progress. Every day I find my social media inundated with advice and information pertaining to the virus and its potential deadly effects on the elderly, people with pre-existing respiratory ailments, and the immunocompromised. I’ve come across plenty of articles warning anyone over a certain age who suffers from COPD to stay away from crowds of people. I’ve seen guides on what to do if you’re a cancer patient in the middle of chemotherapy. I’ve watched video blogs created by people concerned about how panic-buying could have an impact on the elderly and how we can help their situation by getting supplies to them. What strikes me most however, is the usual lack of consideration towards nonbinary people and how a pandemic of this scale might affect their already difficult lives.
As a nonbinary person myself I am sadly not surprised at this complete disregard for people like me. It’s almost as if a worldwide pandemic makes us invisible. Indeed one of the symptoms listed on the medical advice websites should read: may cause a complete erasure of compassion for the lived experiences of gender non-conforming individuals. Not that mainstream society had any compassion for us to begin with, and now that the headlines are filled with concern for boomers it’s like Trump has finally won.
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| by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 15, 2020 4:21 PM
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IF this is NOT a joke, I wish the author the absolute worst that could possibly happen to, umm, "them."
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 14, 2020 11:02 PM
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"What strikes me most however, is the usual lack of consideration towards nonbinary people and how a pandemic of this scale might affect their already difficult lives. "
Okay, that made me laugh out loud!
Those cancer patients and people with chronic respiratory disease who might be dead in a week have it SO EASY!!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 14, 2020 11:03 PM
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This is a redirect from The Onion, right? No one is this navel gazing, not even a non binary.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 14, 2020 11:05 PM
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What about me?
This global pandemic is all about me, and it is especially hard for me because I have a self-inflicted "diagnosis."
All those elderly people and cancer patients are taking away attention that rightly belongs to me!
After all, if I wasn't desperate for attention, I wouldn't have declared myself non-binary in the first place.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 14, 2020 11:05 PM
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Dear Diary:
How can I make a worldwide health crisis all about me?
Me
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 14, 2020 11:07 PM
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Not the Onion, but the article does have a humor tag at the top, R3
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 14, 2020 11:08 PM
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One of the tags is HUMOR. The Spectator, a right wing publication, is having a giggle and making some mischief.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 14, 2020 11:08 PM
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It’s a joke. One of the tags is “humor.”
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 14, 2020 11:08 PM
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And yes, OP should be ashamed for linking to a right-wing rag.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 14, 2020 11:09 PM
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I checked. It's not from the Onion, it's from The Spectator. A real magazine, that's been running since 1928.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 14, 2020 11:09 PM
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"Now, of course I appreciate that people with medically-recognized illnesses have cause for concern, but they are getting all the support they need right now."
Who cares if testing is inadequate and there's no cure! MY FEELINGS ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION!
This guy/al is the gift that keeps on giving. Has s/he written anything else?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 14, 2020 11:12 PM
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As others have said there is a giant HUMOR tag clear as day.
I weep for society.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 14, 2020 11:13 PM
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I do worry about truly vulnerable populations, like the homeless. If you have it send money to a soup kitchen, ya'll.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 14, 2020 11:15 PM
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Btw, before people get snarky, the food kitchen I support has shifted to handing out bagged lunches rather than sit down meals for the homeless to prevent large numbers gathering in an enclosed area.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 14, 2020 11:20 PM
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In fairness, most of us did not go to the page to see the tags.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 14, 2020 11:20 PM
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It's a British right wing paper, not exactly the same thing as Fox News.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 15, 2020 12:06 AM
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There is absolutely no way that's not from an Onion-eque parody site.
Or worse, from some hatchet job conservatives who jerk-off furiously to made up outrages.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 15, 2020 12:33 AM
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[quote]As a nonbinary person myself I am sadly not surprised at this complete disregard for people like me.
"WAAAHHH! Where is my SPECIALNESS??"
Hun, you look a fright and NOBODY wants to have sex with you, that's special enough!
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 15, 2020 12:37 AM
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COVID-19, which I have, is not as horrible as endometriosis and morgellons, which I also have.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 15, 2020 12:40 AM
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Non-binary people are such narcissists that I didn't even realise it was a parody until the second paragraph.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 15, 2020 12:41 AM
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Yeah there are very similar articles that are not, in fact, parodies, so it's hard to tell.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 15, 2020 12:45 AM
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Whoever wrote the disclaimer about why there aren't more options must have been sorely tempted to type, "Look, this is a fucking pandemic, time to start acting like a grown-up and accept that there are two sexes. Your snowflake identity has no impact on your susceptibility to the virus, but your sex does."
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 15, 2020 12:45 AM
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What does that even mean?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 15, 2020 4:21 PM
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