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We need to change the conversation. There are few ventilators, so ppl argue that disabled ppl shouldn't be given a fair shot to life because our chances are deemed less good (debatable) & our 'quality of life' is already viewed as unbearable for most able-bodied people 1/
We need to change the conversation. There are few ventilators, so ppl argue that disabled ppl shouldn't be given a fair shot to life because our chances are deemed less good (debatable) & our 'quality of life' is already viewed as unbearable for most able-bodied people 1/
It becomes a balloon argument about who we chuck to their deaths, and who is more worthy of staying alive. Instead, let's remember compassion for the weakest in society.
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Let's remember that almost one in five WORKING AGE people are disabled and being told their lives are not worth fighting for (and neither are they 'worth' providing delivery slots or essential care for.) 3/
Disability and age make us more vulnerable, but let's remember at the same time that poverty kills, and pressure combined with mental illness kills, and not set one vulnerable group against the other in Hunger Games competition style. 4/
Let's change the conversation from 'who gets the ventilators' to 'how can we make more ventilators'. Let's change the conversation from 'how can we protect the strongest' to 'how can we protect us all'. 5/
Let's change the conversation from 'should old people die or NHS workers' to 'let's get PPE for NHS workers.' Let's kick up, not down, and pummel those with power and resources to be sacrificial, not those who have already given up so much. We need to change the conversation. END
