[community] Disability Advocacy during the Coronavirus Crisis

[pina.dintino at gmail.com]

I did see something from David Lepovfsky last week, but not much more.
Pina

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From: community <community-bounces at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca> On Behalf Of Ushnish
Sengupta
Sent: March 24, 2020 12:19 AM
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Subject: [community] Disability Advocacy during the Coronavirus Crisis

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-bi
ll-will-put-vulnerable-at-risk

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-washington-triage-disabled
-handicapped.html
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Ushnish
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