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Same! I feel like a jerk, but like... if this was going to be the rest of their lives, they'd be so angry. They're already protesting on the streets against it even being temporary. Lol.

Nobody cares until it's happening to them. Nobody cares that I haven't worked in 6 years, that I have to rely on very unreliable government services and financial assistance that took years to put in place. Nobody cares that I'll live in poverty until I die. That I can't get outside to enjoy the air and the sun and see people and nature without help that I don't have. Nobody cares that I'll always be at imminent risk of being homeless, for me a second time. People seem to operate under the delusion that the disabled are taken care of by society and that only those who aren't trying or waste their payment on drugs and alcohol are struggling to afford basics like food and hot water. Housing is so bad in my area that there are zero rentals affordable to people on pensions. Zero. Despite the government saying they have a target percentage they want to see, nothing is ever done to make it happen. It's all just words.

Now everyone else has to live in this situation where they're being placated and the words the government uses don't have any tangible meaning in their lives. It's not putting food on their tables, and they are freaking out.

I just want to tell people to like... breathe in and accept the fact that you never had control of your life, and then breathe out. You thought you did while you had the ability to support yourself, but that's not something you get to keep. You're going to lose it sooner or later anyway. Be glad you'll have the opportunity to compete for whatever job you can get when everything is open for business again, probably too soon because we must save the economy, probably at the expense of a lot of us non-contributors dying.

Oh that feels better. I do wish I could smack some perspective into some people.

I had the fun of having a bunch of my friends actually complain to me about how little they were getting on their temporary government payments and assume that I get more because mine is a permanent payment. Haha. No. It is much less. You're getting over $100 more per week. They've confirmed that the disabled won't receive an increase, even though our expenses have increased.

It's like we're on the titanic and we're locked below deck and everyone on deck is complaining about the lifeboats being cramped.

I had the fun of having a bunch of my friends actually complain to me about how little they were getting on their temporary government payments and assume that I get more because mine is a permanent payment. Haha. No. It is much less. You're getting over $100 more per week.

oh my god, they had the gall to complain to your face? Without fact-checking?

A friend once assumed I was on good money because she thought I lived fairly well. No, I just watched every cent ferociously and lived on short-dated food for years.

...At risk of going all Four Yorkshiremen, I'm getting 2/3 of the temp payment. This gives me a very good idea of my worth to society (never mind all the volunteering I did while I was still capable, eh? never mind all the damage it did me, I was such a fool.)

It's like we're on the titanic and we're locked below deck and everyone on deck is complaining about the lifeboats being cramped.

Yeah, that sums it up perfectly. {hugs if wanted from a fellow below-decker}

Yeah. To be fair it's hard to actually find the information and understand the payment table and all the possible combinations, and I don't tell people when they visit "hey go easy on my snack food I only bought one treat for myself this fortnight!" because that's stingy and rude.

The media like to make it seem like everyone is taking advantage of the system and we're all no-good dirty crims who leech off decent hard-working people. Like the pension is some grand prize and you'd be set for life. I can understand why people can be misled. There are almost no reports on what it's actually like to live on it.

Yeah, we're all frugal for survival. I mend my own clothes and I really shop around and try to find what I need for the least cash possible, and that's impossible at the moment. Delivery cost went up. There's no generic brands in stock because fuckers are hoarding.

It does feel like we're considered a fraction of the worth of other people, doesn't it? I was the same, I worked until I absolutely couldn't, I volunteered, even when I really needed the help I wouldn't take anything from the food bank or any places I volunteered at even though I was the poor. Lol.

For other people, there's an end in sight. It might not be a great time, but there are opportunities for improvement ahead. For us there's just this. Literally for me, because my immune system is weak and I'm strongly discouraged from unnecessary contact with people always.

I suppose it's too much to hope for that this might stir empathy in enough people for things to improve for us in any way.

Safe virtual hugs to you, too.

Oh god, so much this. I could just about copy-paste the entire thing. I really think people wish we would just die tidily and get out of the way. What they don't realise is that the attitudes they're condoning now will be the attitudes that come back to bite them on the bum when their own turn, inevitably, comes.

Which won't help us, though. At least we've got some of the skills necessary to get through this crisis at least.

/solidarity

I am also on disability and I'll definitely second all of this.

I'm able enough that I can work part time. It's really hard for me, but I do it because I feel like I have to at least try. So this whole lock-down has honestly been...a relief? That's super fucked up, and of course I'd wish this all away in a heartbeat if I could, for everyone's sake, but yeah, not feeling the need to keep up with life has been a real relief to me.

Also, I just did the math and my disability check is 58% of the amount Canadians are receiving to replace our lost incomes.

And like...I'm not even that mad about my disability amount. It's gone up like $275 in the last five years, which has me feeling pretty grateful tbh (it was hideously low before, because our conservative government didn't raise it for like fifteen years). But all the same, it's pretty telling that when the government has to cover the non-disabled people's living expenses they figure a reasonable living wage is almost double what they give us to live on.

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