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Interesting choice to reference Lorenz here, since she is against assisted suicide and its legalization, and has been posting a fair bit in Twitter (and presumably Bluesky) about the recent British legalization of assisted suicide (see eg. this tweet and this tweet).
Of course, this isn't particularly surprising if you consider that both Lorenz's COVID diehard soapboxing and this sort of opposition to assisted suicide spring from same source, or are at least justified with references to same rhetoric - disability activism and ableism. There's been quite a fracas in left-wing Twitter generally since the election about whether left-wing movements should continue with COVID precautions like masking (see comments and retweets to this tweet, for instance), with the masking advocates (who are considerably in the minority, to be noted) primarily justifying the practice as a way of solidarity towards disabled people and COVID risk groups.
The same anti-ableism advocates have been also generally very critical of euthanasia and the burgeoning euthanasia culture including, presumably, ads like the one linked. This is probably a large reason why the recently passed assisted British law had a considerable contigent of left-wingers voting against it in the Parliament (147 against 234 within Labour), with - as far as I know - specifically the left wing of Labour being more likely to vote against it.
Ah, so that’s why covidian lol cows have been getting retweeted into my feed.
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