A Jan. 20 article published by the media watch group FAIR finds that ableist perspectives on disability in the pandemic have been elevated by the media, while disabled voices have largely been sidelined. Many people aren’t very bothered by the deaths of people like me, but this callousness is contrary to their own self-interest. Anyone could become disabled in the split second it takes for a tire to blow out on the freeway, or to inhale a microbe. The extreme fatigue, debilitating headaches, confusion and memory loss of long-haul Covid-19 sound remarkably like the symptoms of my chronic neurological illness. Furthermore, the virus does not recognize boundaries of the body; Covid-19’s blaze through vulnerable populations has sparked outbreaks across the country, infecting people across all demographics.