Covid day of reflection sees Lisa Nandy skewered

Lisa Nandy shared some trite words on the government’s Covid-19 Day of Reflection. And rightly, disabled people ripped her to fucking shreds.

Covid Day of Reflection: lockdown through rose-tinted specs

According to the government, on March 8:

the nation will reflect and come together to remember those that lost their lives and to honour the tireless work and acts of kindness shown by many during the pandemic.

Of course, what actually happened was a few bullshit words and brushing the fact that COVID-19 still exists under the carpet.

Case in point, Lisa Nandy tweeted:

Today marks the national Covid-19 Day of Reflection.

Every one of us was impacted. My thoughts are with people who experienced loss and still carry the effects of the pandemic.

We also honour the dedication of our NHS staff, key workers and volunteers who helped us through.

Every March now, disabled people experience untold anger at the way “the pandemic years” are portrayed through rose-tinted glasses by politicians, the media, and even a lot of the general public.

They reminisce about banging pots and pans for the NHS instead of the government actually giving healthcare workers extra funding.

They laugh over socially distanced street parties while families couldn’t even hug at funerals. And get misty-eyed over Zoom games nights, talking about being “trapped” indoors.

When disabled people, who were actually abandoned in their homes, are ignored and still to this day derided.

Even though we know just how many of our community died and how many more disabled people Covid-19 is still creating.

Lisa Nandy ripped to shreds

A lot of hatred was rightly heaped onto the Tories for their handling of 2020, but it’s the way Labour is treating disabled people now that should also be in the spotlight.

Which is why Lisa Nandy’s tweet hit a nerve:

She’s correct in saying every one of us was impacted, but some of us far more than others. Nandy’s vast, wide-ranging hypocrisy was swiftly pointed out in the quote tweets.

Nandy turned off comments. Judging by the amount of anti-vaxxers in the quotes, this almost makes sense. But it also sent a clear message to disabled people that Labour don’t want your outlook either.

Some pointed out that COVID has not gone away, and Labour are doing nothing to stop it

But others, angry at the Labour planned cuts, pointed out just how dangerous Nandy’s party are for disabled people since COVID-19 started

This, from a former NHS key worker, is heartbreaking:

This is who the Labour Party really is

For all their platitudes about ‘honouring’ key workers and protecting people, they don’t give a fuck about disabled people. If they did, the DWP wouldn’t be trying to make it harder to claim PIP and slashing Universal Credit for new claimants.

At the end of the day, if successive governments hadn’t spent years demonising disabled people, it wouldn’t have been so easy for people to accept so many disabled deaths by COVID-19.

And that is the uncomfortable truth Labour needs to live with. Enough of the bullshit, politicians caused all these deaths. Now they get to have them on their conscience.

Featured image via the Canary