Ableism Rearing Its Ugly Head: What COVID-19 Reveals About the Valuing of (Disabled) Lives

By Shanna K. Kattari

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The coronavirus pandemic is terrifying to everyone, yet when people say that COVID-19 does not discriminate, that statement is wrong. We have already noted that existing illnesses in Black populations (to be clear, health disparities as a result of racism) have resulted in…