You should read this article that was written in response to the OP. Yes, obviously this writer's own feelings are valid and it's not fair that we all need to put our lives on hold because our government decided to prioritize capital over human lives. That's obviously not her fault, and maybe I'm part of the problem by going hard on her when the issue is bigger than an NPR problem. But merely the decision to frame this, and publish this, as an interpersonal or marital issue when it's a political issue of denying disabled people their right to live their lives in public, is completely myopic and says a lot about how libertarian NPR is.