Zach Weinersmith on Nostr: 3) We ignore all the awfulness that happened to people who were not the able bodied ...
3) We ignore all the awfulness that happened to people who were not the able bodied men and women you imagine knitting or drinking in pubs or dancing on May Day. People died a lot. The disabled had bad lives if they weren't lucky. Akenfield describes elderly people literally stuffed in closets.