Social erasure is the aim of marginalization, and there’s no greater social erasure than disability. Recent folk heroes notwithstanding, in the exhaustively annotated essay “No Planet Without Us”, Anna Landre states “…we need to become comfortable with the fact that disability will become part of all of our stories. Every single person will become disabled…Disability is as universal and inevitable as our changing climate.” And while a Rolling Stone article gives the aforementioned folk hero his disability card in the essay title (“Luigi Mangione Wrote Online about a Spine Disorder. Other Patients Say It’s Hell: Spondylolisthesis, or a slipped vertebra, can have devastating effects on the body—and the US health care system often makes things worse”), being disabled often results in erasure; reports from disaster areas highlight failures in disaster management that are often fatal to the disabled. And while current mob-think scapegoating has bubbled into bloodthirst, the institutionalization of the eugenicist view has resulted in denial of care and medical execution. […]