Category: COVID Blogs (page 2)

by Shelley Lynn Tremain In Canada, no aspect of the COVID-19 state of emergency has demonstrated the egregious effects for seniors and younger disabled people of neoliberal austerity measures and government indifference to the lives of elders and disabled people…

by Priti Salian It’s been several weeks since Barbra Anying went out to sell shoes in Lira, a city in northern Uganda. When non-essential businesses were prohibited to function due to the COVID-19 lockdown, she used up all her savings…

by Bob Goldstraw “Only the vulnerable will be at risk. Your ‘only’ is my everything.” That was the last post that April Dunn put on her Facebook page. A fierce advocate for the rights of people with disabilities in Louisiana,…

by Aishwarya Chouhan On the 23rd of March, the Indian government imposed an abrupt nationwide lockdown to mitigate community transmission of the coronavirus. While prima facie the move seemed commendable, the unplanned lockdown came with unfair consequences for disabled people, especially…

By Karen Fischer Gerard Buckley, a deaf resident of Rochester, New York and the President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), was checking out at a local grocery store when…

by Abha Khetarpal The COVID-19 pandemic has disconcerted everyone on this planet. Varied scales of interventions, strategies and manoeuvres are being initiated and tried in alignment with the evolving situation. But worldwide, a community that is facing the brunt of…