[community] Disability Advocacy during the Coronavirus Crisis

[Jutta Treviranus]

Catherine Frazee and the group that created the Vulnerable Persons Standard http://www.vps-npv.ca, the Canadian Association for Community Living, and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities were addressing this bias before COVID-19. With the passing and revision of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) legislation in Canada, there were regulators (and medical decision-makers) that questioned whether a life with disability was worth living. VPS,CACL and CCD have been fighting this attitude and the regulations that have an impact on these choices in healthcare for some time. 

Jutta

> On Mar 24, 2020, at 8:11 AM, pina.dintino at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I did see something from David Lepovfsky last week, but not much more.
> Pina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community <community-bounces at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca> On Behalf Of Ushnish
> Sengupta
> Sent: March 24, 2020 12:19 AM
> To: Inclusive Design Community <community at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca>
> 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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