Disabled people should be considered before Covid rules are relaxed | Letters
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A common theme in disabled people’s experiences of the pandemic has been a sense of profound inequality, writes Gemma Hope
Many disabled people will be asking the same question as Hannah Devlin (Covid rules are to be axed in England, but is pandemic’s end really in sight?, 9 February), and feel concerned about the relaxing of rules.
A common theme in disabled people’s experiences of the pandemic has been a sense of profound inequality. Disabled people have faced a higher clinical risk, bigger threats to job security and more barriers to living well from Covid-19. And the feeling among many disabled people that their needs are being ignored has only been accentuated by a perceived desire by the government to return to the “old normal” while the virus still poses a serious threat to lives and livelihoods.
