Modeled after and heavily inspired by this document by Ruby Levine,

How To Talk To Your Loved Ones About Covid

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Modeled after and heavily inspired by this document by Ruby Levine, "Let Them Eat Plague,” and "a long winter crip survival guide for pandemic year 4/forever" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Tina “constant tt” Zavitsanos.

The work we are doing to stay safe matters. The work we are doing to keep ourselves alive—fully alive, not just existing—matters.

Every chain of transmission that is broken is valuable, every person that doesn't get sick, that doesn't lose that week of work, or doesn't become disabled or die, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the greatest of losses: every single one of those things is valuable.

Who are we? We are a multiracial, multiethnic and international group of queer, disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, workers, artists, and organizers from various socioeconomic backgrounds and different sets of lived experiences. This document represents the labor of those whose resources we drew from and gathered, our own original words, and feedback from others who have already begun the hard and necessary work of talking to their loved ones about the realities of Covid. We are grateful to everyone whose work and care has made this living document possible, and we plan to continue expanding it together.

In this updated version, we’ve added sections on talking to your children about Covid, the importance of allowing ourselves to grieve, some tips on traveling safely, and more. We’ve expanded the section on the mitigations being taken by the rich, updated some links throughout to include more recent studies and stats, and added information about mitigations.

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