RAY TORO OWNS THIS ASS

A 2006 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that "cohorts in utero during the pandemic displayed reduced educational attainment, increased rates of physical disability, lower income, lower socioeconomic status, and higher transfer payments received compared with other birth cohorts."[311] A 2018 study found that the pandemic reduced educational attainment in populations.[312] The flu has also been linked to the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.[313] Survivors faced an elevated mortality risk. Some survivors did not fully recover from physiological conditions resulting from infection.[314]

i was even talking TO my dad about this a few weeks ago. and he was talking about how his wife, my stepmother, a lovely woman, was going through it a bit with some medical stuff ad she was frustrated dealing with all the recovery shit. and he said something like, "this is just a normal part of life fo everyone eventually, we used to have people we called 'invalids' in the last three centuries, people who we just took care of and weren't expected to do anything except survive and if they were lucky maybe recover. and it's not a big deal". and he's right!

i think you will find the opposite, that working class and poor people are disabled more often than the wealthy, and in fact this is a huge feature of historical documentation and fiction of previous centuries: that people with a lot of disabled dependents, or who were disabled themselves, were often impoverished BY those economic pressures, and still are.

this narrative that disability is a privilege is completely backwards. the rich are beholden to a lot of luxury diseases that we are not discussing here, this is not about how someone got into a bad batch of La Roche Posay and is laid up with a rash until their boutique dermatologist can get out to the Willamsberg condo conversion on a housecall.