This is my 44th year working in the often-invisible psychiatric survivor movement, called “Mad Pride” by some of us. I feel I am a great gatekeeper for the disability community to welcome you, because I am in both the mental and physical disability movements. Now we need to fire you, but that is not enough. We need to love our enemies, and you have been an enemy of many people with disabilities, including the tens of thousands of us in nursing homes and other congregate living facilities who have died from COVID-19. Welcome, Donald!Īfter your diagnosis, you sent a brief tweet ending with the capitalized word, “LOVE.” I love you, too, Donald. But clearly he had joined our community of disabled people, potentially the biggest social change movement in the world. When Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID, the world had strong reactions. Oaks begins keynote for Peerpocalypse with Ian, home care worker.
