Coronavirus: Tories endanger disabled people with homicidal choice between a rock and a hard place
What charmers these Tories are! They’re telling UK-based people with disabilities they have a choice between starving while waiting for their benefit claim to be honoured, and dying of Covid-19 because the Tory government is sending them back to work too soon:
Disabled people and their carers are being put at risk of catching coronavirus by returning to the workplace after being missed off the government’s vulnerable list, the Guardian has learned.
As Britain edges back to work, employers are understood to be denying some disabled people and carers paid leave to remain at home if they cannot provide a letter from the government showing proof of vulnerability, despite being at high risk from coronavirus or caring for someone who is.
The government’s register for extremely vulnerable people, which has previously been criticised for excluding a number of high-risk disabilities, is primarily designed to help signpost the need for food support. But it has emerged some employers are using the list as a condition for allowing employees to take paid leave.
Disabled people and carers who were not on the list told the Guardian they had been required to go into work by their employer or face dismissal when they could not show proof of vulnerability, with one worker forced to self-isolate between shifts in order to protect their disabled child.
This is just plain homicidal, from a government that has been caught victimising people with disabilities – to death – many times in the past.
It’s no excuse to say that nobody asked employers to use this flawed register; it was the government’s responsibility to get it right.
But – as with so much of the Tory response to Covid-19 – the effort made was lacklustre, slipshod, and discriminatory.
Intentionally?
Source: Disabled people in UK threatened with sack unless they go back to work | Society | The Guardian
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