Think of a virus where 70% of kids are totally asymptomatic, less than 1% have severe symptoms, and less than 0.05% die. Phew that's no big deal for kids then! Don't worry about them!

Oops actually it's polio in the 1950s

cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/… Polio in the 1950s caused lifelong disability to so many children that it changed the trajectory of the disability rights movement even though less than 1% of all kids who caught polio had any form of paralysis.

I hate taking about my feelings but I'm going to talk about them a bit because I think it's relevant here. Being in disability advocacy, your friends keep dying. Sometimes it's nobody's fault, really, it's just that some disabilities lol you early. But often, it actually is someone's fault.

As someone who cares about disaster preparedness I have to say, @LindseyGrahamSC's comments about owning an AR-15 in case "there's a hurricane, a natural disaster, no power, no cops, no anything," is AT BEST spreading an attitude about preparedness that will make people die So first, let's just charitably look at this statement on its face an assume he's actually talking about a natural disaster that shuts down all infrastructure. In SC this is easily foreseeable.

This bill gives corporations added incentives not to hire people with disabilities.

It gives corporations added incentives not to hire parents. Especially single parents.

It gives corporations NO added incentives to pay people more. Will explain.

marketwatch.com/story/sanders-… People with disabilities often are on Medicaid. Medicaid benefits are expensive. We can be on Medicaid even when earning well over the poverty line, due to buy-in programs. Corporations already discriminate against us - they'll discriminate more if they have to pay our Medicaid.