For disabled and other #HighRiskCovid19 people, the CDC’s new guidance means more:
- Death
- Sickness & further disablement
- Isolation from family, friends, services, supports
- For those who cannot isolate but want to protect themselves & others, risk of public harassment 1/5
- Death
- Sickness & further disablement
- Isolation from family, friends, services, supports
- For those who cannot isolate but want to protect themselves & others, risk of public harassment 1/5
- For those of us who have to work or go to school in person, this new guidance will make it even harder to get accommodations related to COVID safety.
- For families who have kept their high risk children at home instead of sending them to school, this will have to continue 2/5
- For families who have kept their high risk children at home instead of sending them to school, this will have to continue 2/5
- For people living in congregate settings, group homes, nursing homes, jails, detention centers, this new CDC guidance will mean that COVID will continue to tear through these places, and people will have even less recourse to protect themselves. 3/5
The CDC issued this loosened COVID guidance after the Senate chose NOT to make historic investments in home and community based services, paid family and medical leave, and childcare - all things that would help mitigate the effects of “living with the virus.” #CareCantWait 4/5
Throughout the pandemic, I’ve thought abt how hard disabled folks fought to be in public. Fighting against institutionalization & ugly laws. Fighting for the ability to leave home & for rights to public accommodations. Now, in order to survive, we are back behind closed doors 5/5
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