The Covid Inquiry: what’s worse than being disabled in the pandemic? Let’s add in some patina of age and colour…
The Covid Inquiry has heard the voices of disabled people for the first time this week. Legal representatives have presented evidence from Disabled People’s Organisations including Disability Rights UK, Disability Action Northern Ireland, Inclusion Scotland and Disability Wales as part of the preliminary hearings for part of Module Two.
I’m going to keep saying this figure because it’s still not in public consciousness: six out of ten people who died of Covid were disabled people. Six. Out of. Ten.
