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Tag Archives: social isolation
How Pandemic Response Measures Harm People With Disabilities
The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping all our lives. With more than six million confirmed infections in the United States, we are living through a seismic cultural event impacting how we work, learn, socialize, and function. For people with disabilities, like … Continue reading
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Tagged ableism, accountability, activism, adapting, bias, coping, covid-19, crisis, disability, masks, pandemic, policy, priorities, public health, social isolation
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How To Stay At Home
One thing I have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is that people with chronic illness have a lot to teach healthy people. We have the skills and hard-earned experience of coping with social isolation and restrictions on what we want … Continue reading
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Tagged adjusting, coping, covid-19, family, help, infections, joy, living with, masks, pandemic, PEM, plan ahead, preparation, public health, quarantine, sars, self-care, sick, social isolation, suffering, virus, volunteer
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Vaccine Melee
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been uneven, to put it kindly. In my home state of Pennsylvania, it’s been a mess (that’s also putting it kindly). The actual situation has a lot more in common with a Black Friday scramble … Continue reading →