# It’s Hard to Explain Jus... **Covers**:: [[hope]], **Source**:: [It’s Hard to Explain Jus...](https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480187979243130887) **Creator**:: [[@LuxAlptraum on Twitter]] # Highlights ##### ^269132044 highlight_tags:: [[hope]] Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480187979243130887 ###### ^269132044q It’s hard to explain just how offensive I find doomerism, like on a visceral level ^269132044 ##### ^269132045 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480188239482916868 ###### ^269132045q When I see people insisting that nothing will ever get better, that the pandemic can’t possibly ever get better, I think about what would have happened if my grandmother had decided her life would never get better when she was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto. ^269132045 ##### ^269132046 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480188492957290496 ###### ^269132046q She probably wouldn’t have escaped to the woods when the ghetto was liquidated, and wouldn’t have spent the rest of the war there with her brother — a member of the Bielski partisans. And she wouldn’t have met my grandfather in a DP camp, and I wouldn’t exist. ^269132046 ##### ^269132047 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480188744351334402 ###### ^269132047q And I think about my uncles who contracted HIV in the 70s and 80s, and how if they had believed things would never get better as their friends died around them, they wouldn’t have lived long enough for treatments to improve, and I would never have known them. ^269132047 ##### ^269132048 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480189021137612802 ###### ^269132048q And I think about how, even though those uncles died over twenty years ago, if *no one* had believed that HIV care could improve past where it was in the 1990s then we wouldn’t have PrEP today, and I wouldn’t have HIV+ friends who manage their illness with one pill. ^269132048 ##### ^269132049 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480189261567729669 ###### ^269132049q And I also think about loved ones whose cancer almost killed them but who benefited from new, innovative treatments developed *during the course of their illness*. ^269132049 ##### ^269132050 highlight_tags:: [[favorite]] Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480189599402057737 ###### ^269132050q I don’t think that having hope is naive. I don’t think that it means having your head in the sand. I think it’s a *survival strategy*, because if you can’t imagine things ever getting better then what is the point of being alive? ^269132050 ##### ^269132051 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480190217684463622 ###### ^269132051q I also think that, as interminable as two years feels, it’s also *nothing* compared to, say, the twelve years of the Third Reich or the decade+ it took to get truly effective HIV treatments, and to look at a two years during which we’ve gotten vaccines and antivirals… ^269132051 ##### ^269132052 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480190219219517440 ###### ^269132052q … and say that nothing is getting better, or could get better, is to be both incredibly tunnel visioned *and* disrespectful to all the people who endured far longer for far less. ^269132052 ##### ^269132053 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480192524232925185 ###### ^269132053q BTW doomerism also fuels ableism because it’s doomerism that says that disabled people’s lives can’t possibly be worth living ^269132053 ##### ^269132054 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480222182353559556 ###### ^269132054q This thread is not an invitation to dump your emotional struggles on me, a person with her own struggles. I get that doomerism can be hard to overcome, I’m just explaining why I find it upsetting. ^269132054 ##### ^269132055 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480222683774214146 ###### ^269132055q Doomerism actively chips away at my own mental health, is my point here. ^269132055 ##### ^269132056 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480388142351925251 ###### ^269132056q I’m really glad people are finding this tweet helpful and also feel like I should share this old tweet that used to be my pinned tweet just as a disclaimer for anyone who starts following me now, I mean this thread is pretty on brand for me but going viral is a lot of pressure https://t.co/K5xcbc8TOs ^269132056 ##### ^269132057 Goto: https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1480394447200391170 ###### ^269132057q Hey friends, this thread is approaching the viral tipping point where my mentions are about to become unmanageable so I’m muting it. I appreciate everyone leaving notes saying that it’s helpful! I’m not interested in discussing it further, it was just my personal rallying cry. ^269132057