Many conservatives and liberals share an ableist worldview that says getting COVID is now a matter of individual responsibility. Entering society to earn a living, visiting loved ones, buying food, and seeing the doctor are all optional activities, our free choice. We can choose to move about a society that couldn’t care less if we live or die, as long as we do so quietly, without complaint, or we can choose to wilt and die alone.
Tag: public health
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Via JSTOR Daily, which describes an 1840 pamphlet “ a four-pronged approach to public healthcare that sounds remarkably like our own.”