We are not over the worst effects of the pandemic. We may be over the stage when the acute phase of infection kills millions each month (and not all the most vulnerable are yet dead but are living our lives in a state of constant shielding and segregation from society, possibly the biggest resegregation of disabled people from mainstream…
We are not over the worst effects of the pandemic. We may be over the stage when the acute phase of infection kills millions each month (and not all the most vulnerable are yet dead but are living our lives in a state of constant shielding and segregation from society, possibly the biggest resegregation of disabled people from mainstream society in generations) but the worst effects are yet to come with the stark effects of a mass disabling event with millions, perhaps billions of people chronically disabled. We can see already see this in the response of the UK government which wants to force all disabled people into labouring on threat of our losing social security and/or disability payments, partly led by the large increase in people claiming disability payments due to the effects of COVID. https://dpac.uk.net/2023/11/press-release-disabled-people-not-coasting-on-benefits/ We also have to consider what the dead eyed response from capitalism will do if, perhaps when, SARS-CoV-2 mutates to a strain that almost totally evades vaccines and/or another pandemic of equal magnitude appears.
We are not over the worst effects of the pandemic. We may be over the stage when the acute phase of infection kills millions each month (and not all the most vulnerable are yet dead but are living our lives in a state of constant shielding and segregation from society, possibly the biggest resegregation of disabled people from mainstream society in generations) but the worst effects are yet to come with the stark effects of a mass disabling event with millions, perhaps billions of people chronically disabled. We can see already see this in the response of the UK government which wants to force all disabled people into labouring on threat of our losing social security and/or disability payments, partly led by the large increase in people claiming disability payments due to the effects of COVID. https://dpac.uk.net/2023/11/press-release-disabled-people-not-coasting-on-benefits/ We also have to consider what the dead eyed response from capitalism will do if, perhaps when, SARS-CoV-2 mutates to a strain that almost totally evades vaccines and/or another pandemic of equal magnitude appears.