To put it bluntly: the ableist belief that only the elderly and disabled would be affected by COVID is and was a myth. UnbotheredArticles R29Unbothered
“The disabled and elderly are the most likely to die from this virus.” I closed my eyes and beat back the desire to scream-cry at the news before me. It was March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had reached America, and the pandemic of Ableist Media was in full swing.
While non-disabled people were willing to relax at the misguided belief that only the elderly and disabled would be affected by COVID, disabled people predicted it early: the coronavirus pandemic would be a mass disabling event. Non-disabled people only saw the potential outcomes of the virus as either life or death — they didn't account for the gray. Disabled people live in the gray. Even after the virus has left the system and patients are in “recovery,” aboutexperience long-term symptoms and disability. They live in the gray now with us too.
This framing and erasure of disabled people’s lives in a story about America’s disregard for the disabled is not unique to the Washington Post. Most ableist news would lead you to believe that disabled lives are burdens on the economy; our murders, though tragic, are understandable; our existence, disposable, and our deaths merciful.
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