In This Episode: Coronavirus Updates and a Discussion on Ableism and the Way We Approach Health Crisis

JOKES, that’s right, TWO OF EM

Nichole: Due to the quarantine…

Callie: Why can’t you find toilet paper anywhere?

Main Topic

FYI: We’re recording remotely for the foreseeable future so the audio quality is going to take a hit until we can get back together or figure out a better solution.

This week we’re talking about the Coronavirus again: we have updates about the fuckery that Democrats and Republicans are up to and information about who is really at risk. We use this to jump off into a more philosophical conversation, our former bread and butter, about the rampant ableism we’ve seen in how people are talking about and processing the pandemic, including our thoughts surrounding the way we tend to approach health crises (if it doesn’t affect ME, then it doesn’t exist!) and the insufferable privilege of only focusing on the health crisis and not the related economic crisis crashing down on our heads. Our individualistic approach to emergencies never worked, but is especially disastrous now as we enter an age of global catastrophy. The human race will not survive this if we don’t think about these situations in terms of community.

Resources

* A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients (ProPublica)* DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency (RollingStone)* Ohio halts procedures at abortion clinics amid COVID-19 outbreak (The Hill)* Bernie Sanders Coronavirus Livestream with AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (Periscope)* Tanks rolling through San Diego (Twitter)

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