not sure how to properly trigger warning this. Anyway, this made me extremely angry! I hate it! I don't have anything clever to say!
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Disgusting.
Younger people with learning disabilities aged 18 to 34 are 30 times more likely to die of Covid than others the same age, according to Public Health England.
This is a terrifying statistic.
I'm not surprised but still outraged.
First time I've read about people with learning disabilities being more susceptible to death from COVID-19 as well.
It mentions learning disabilities such as Down syndrome in particular, people with Down syndrome often have a very frail health for a variety of reasons, particularly heart problems which are known to worsen covid outcomes significantly so I'm guessing that is probably why.
Many genetic disorders that cause learning disabilities also have lots of other health problems associated with them.
Prolekult has a video/documentary about how the Terf Island government has been using covid as an excuse to do eugenics against old and disabled people, Camps of Dependence
Yeah, I think this a pretty strong theory, still amazing how much the UK fucked itself though.
"But wE tHoUgT cOrByN wAs ANTI SEMETIC!"
I'm fine with putting a pause on democracy to eat the rich first.
God DMANIT I thought the disability genocide was at least 2 years away.
It started following the 08 crash when disabled people were forced to jump through impossible hoops (as in there was no way they could achieve the things required of them, no hyperbole here) or have their benefits cut.
About as many disabled people have been killed due to these cuts as people dead from Covid in the UK.
I wish TERF island a very happy sink to the bottom of the ocean
Why do we call them Terf island?
They don't even pretend to be feminist, they just do the transphobe part.
Watch Camps of Dependence to be even angrier about the UK's handling of the disabled and elderly in care homes during covid.
Eugenics and genocide is entirely accurate.
Britain needs to be burned to the ground and a better society built from the ashes
The same people doing this were hammered last year because they put DNR notices on people in old folks homes.
....and they just did it again this year with pople with learning disabilities.
They have no fear. There is only fear of the right in the public sphere.
I don't wanna be that guy. For elderly people a DNR can be a compassionate measure.
There are some forms of living that are worse than death. Having information processing issues could make it even worse.
In my personal case I have a DNR, and they should peobably considered by default for the standard of care. It is a harsh reality. However the tortue of being kept alive while your body dies is a very harsh reality that no ethical person would force on another. The NHS policies of being DNR forward are good ones.
Pedo island can go to hell but the NHS is the start of a good idea.
I plan on getting a DNR if ever i'm currently very ill, and i also want to assisted suicide for the same reason.
However, this is a very clear case of them applying different standards to abled people and disabled people without their choice or consent and that is the issue.
Same comrade.
Is it? I know they have oegan donaton as the default over there. I though the default was DNR in situations of poor expected health outcomes. True there isn't informed concent. However I think their standard of care counts implied concent in this decision. They just take inverse case of it that we do. Where the assumed dicision is for the doctors to do no harm. But I haven't read the ethics analysis in a long time so I could be full of half remembered shit.
DNACPRs are usually made for people who are too frail to benefit from CPR, but Mencap said some seem to have been issued for people simply because they had a learning disability. The CQC is due to publish a report on the practice within weeks.
This is from the article and what i'm referring to. I guess we'll see if they have an explanation in the longer report, but there are so many ways of classing a learning disability - in the US dyslexia counts as a learning disability. So does autism. good thing i'm "high functioning" and i was able to complete the meaningless tasks teachers gave me when i was young and wasn't defined as having a learning disability so some doctors don't decide my life is worth less if i get sick
I wont be able to say for sure till after the report but I took it to be low functioning individuals.
People who have a nominal quality of life and require full time care. Generally with such severe disability they cannot give informed concent.
In time of a pandemic where there was a concern that there wouldn't be enough ventilators going around its a hard choice to make. Every DNR you sign for them possobly saves a life a person who could go on to lead a happy well adjusted life given care. Which is the eithic choice? Sign the paper and hope for the best? If you don't there will be a story in the news about a single mother of two that died for want of a vent and you know your actions might have stoped it. Its a brutal game played with peoples lives but I don't think I can fault a doctor for any decision they make in those situations. No one should have to make that kinda call. Capitalism goes brrrr though. So someone has to.
Similarly in Canada the MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying, basically doctor assisted suicide) program is about to be expanded through a bill to make it much easier to enact. In practice it will be offered to many more disabled people who through crushing austerity will choose MAiD over trying to suffer through life with no welfare or accommodation in this cursed country. The end result is eugenics disguised as a liberal expansion of rights.
I worked for a few years as a support worker for adults with complex behavioral needs and severe learning difficulties in the UK.
Clients (weird term tbh but better than patients I guess?) Were supposed to be assigned an avocate. The role where I worked was voluntary. If they were lucky, they would get someone who was pretty good at it. Most weren't lucky tbh.
When I was working, they were finalising the process of farming out care to private companies. I never saw a company that followed care reccomendations on things like ratio of staff to clients, long term contracts so that support workers and clients were able to form a proper bond/relationship. Understaffed, overworked, underskilled and underpaid basically summed it up. The companies see these people as cash cows. I heard management either expressing pleasure at getting a client cos they drew down a lot of funding or exhasperation as they bought in little funding. Disgusting. Where I worked, two clients were reclassified as needing residential care simply because the company then didn't need to provide as much support.
Long story short, for someone in a care home or residential care with learning disabilities you either need careworkers who give a shit (and to be fair a decent number of people I worked with were saints, frankly) or parents/relatives with the knowledge and motivation to really kick up a fuss and be willing to drag the company to the courts or qcc. Many people in that position have not got that.
This article doesn't surprise me at all.
