[community] Disability Advocacy during the Coronavirus Crisis

[Cybele S]

Agreed that we need some Canadian voices to address this.

Here are a few articles I've been compiling on this from the USA:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820398531/people-with-disabilities-say-rationing-care-policies-violate-civil-rights?
<https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820398531/people-with-disabilities-say-rationing-care-policies-violate-civil-rights?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3rp_HNTiqF7ja4chSOIkuAmInHMsVRK3jnFIe6iLL04zV2YyB8m5asdZo>

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators-triage-disability.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1p7NwiP4cCsIxOyyMvJvBSuufn4gAYscDZgQoPAyfUwoa-qwZuX6h23xY


https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820303309/disability-groups-file-federal-complaint-about-covid-19-care-rationing-plans?fbclid=IwAR0ogtaJ6q0tyMZvkTTbULdRBzo6G9VZBkEJdJH0wjpPoxCb-4Rd5tkp0H4

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-washington-triage-disabled-handicapped.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1Kyzw9gXHXf4cJ87pdlzpmLwJnBPCiCHeOj4WGoeD1pkBrnU43FoeA6aE

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/people-with-disabilities-would-suffer-if-coronavirus-care-is-rationed-advocates-say-in-civil-rights-complaint/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1&fbclid=IwAR3flSH7FnxFJcoIWVavHb_ItvtqrD415pSftL7WyW0X7deX0nCj6KMbXs0

https://thearc.org/disability-discrimination-complaint-filed-over-covid-19-treatment-rationing-plan-in-washington-state/?fbclid=IwAR0IvG8ABYKSGwtIgPH0WKUBObbKTLIeqH85fkgm21urB4z0xkWwPxNlJ9A

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/coronavirus-disabled-health-care.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1DmyenwvXLjdQpHKKBVCDQVg3SHXJJ-ymFKySxKrfn2tBIiZDyD3LoZ-s



On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:20 AM Ushnish Sengupta <
ushnish.sengupta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know who in Canada is doing disability advocacy work during the
> cirisis, ensuring rights remain protected in a changing context?
>
> Wall Street Journal, Trump and now CNN as I watch it and others are musing
> out aloud, while others are making more quiet implicit fatalistic
> calculation of jobs vs lives. Who lives is decided according to some
> utilitarian calculation of potential long term economic value of a life. In
> some calculations, the elderly and disabled are accorded a lower value of
> life.
>
> THESE ARE NOT MY VIEWS, I am raising them as issues being discussed openly
> in mainstream media. Here is a sample of articles from the UK and the US
> below. Not much to be found from Canada on the topic.
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/23/uks-emergency-coronavirus-bill-will-put-vulnerable-at-risk
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-washington-triage-disabled-handicapped.html
> --
> Ushnish
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