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LGBT and chronically ill checking in. So, the biggest reason (in the US) is because the chronically ill haven't had their civil rights movement. I think a lot of history books gloss over just how many riots there were pre 2000s to gain basic human rights. Pride parades are not just a big party - they're a commemoration of the stonewall riots. Protests were held annually for years, and cities began sponsoring the marches so they'd become peaceful protests. Now we have parades. It was a constant uphill battle with people fighting against their very existence being illegal. For being jailed, tortured, or murdered for showing their sexuality. For being blamed because someone who's repressed or in the closet considers someone who's out to be "temptation".
LGBT rights are much closer to black and womens rights than they are to chronic illnesses. We don't see people being jailed for needing a wheelchair, or murdered for having an auto immune disease. If you can get a large number of people to riot for the right to work from home, you might get results. Until then we'll have to wait until things change through the legal system.
That all makes a lot of sense, but I would point out that people with disabilities and illness have been murdered for their conditions even in our recent past. It was actually a story about a German politician wanting to remove kids with disabilities from schools which got me thinking about this. It feels like we're one or two bad ideas away from persecution of the sick and disabled becoming a very present concern again.
And personally speaking, it is true what you say that I'm not jailed for my condition, but as far societies willingness to extend accommodations to make life more livable for myself and others like me, it's as if I've been largely under house arrest for over a decade. The isolation and anxiety that people experienced for a brief period during the pandemic has been my everyday life for years and years.
It's hard to have your movement when you're disabled. I think we chronically ill will need allies more than other groups have.