Welcome to #COVIDchat. Tonight, we& #39;re discussing a conversation @WPeriyasamy & I had with Dr. @BurgartBioethix about disability & rationing care during #COVID19. This is a difficult topic – please mute the hashtag tonight if you need to. https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1250176433227350017">https://twitter.com/mattbc/st...

(It& #39;s particularly important that when we& #39;re discussing difficult issues like rationing, we use the #COVIDchat hashtag to give folks the option of opting out of the conversation by using the "mute a hashtag" feature of twitter)

Tonight& #39;s conversation is really carrying on a discussion that #COVIDchat began with Professor @sbagen, back on March 27th. Sam is one of :the: leading legal experts on the civil rights of disabled folks in this country. https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1243593833901744128?s=20">https://twitter.com/mattbc/st...

In the same way, Dr. @BurgartBioethix is one of :the: leading physician-bioethicist experts in this country.

The full transcript of our #COVIDchat conversation is available on my patreon (no paywall): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36005809 ">https://www.patreon.com/posts/360...

Q1: We find ourselves in the midst of this debate Dr @BurgartBioethix describes over who gets resources when there aren& #39;t enough resources to go around

How do you feel about how that wider public debate has gone so far? Do you feel like disabled folks are represented? #COVIDchat

Q2: Here, (after my very snarky question), Dr. Burgart describes a hypothetical lottery system for rationing scarce resources, like ventilators.

How do you think abled-society would feel about a lottery? And why do you think they might feel whichever-way? #COVIDchat