Covid-19’s death toll on people with disabilities is HORRIFYING – but Scottish authorities won’t produce figures (Vox Political Scrapbook)
We’ve reached a point, now, where I can no longer talk to Mrs Mike about these stories because they send her into paroxysms of rage – and fear.
This particular news item is terrifying on two levels – firstly, that Covid-19 is having such a terrible effect on people with disabilities.
Don’t forget that, even if a person survives the virus, there may be knock-on effects that could seriously harm the quality of the rest of their lives: muscle damage, lung damage, neurological harm. If somebody already has a disability, this could be catastrophic.
And you know the Conservative-run Department for Work and Pensions wouldn’t give a damn.
Secondly, there’s the fact that the Scottish health authorities aren’t even bothering to research the effect of the virus on disabled people in that country.
To This Writer, the omission is as bad as that of the DWP itself when it spent years trying to hide the number of people who had died after being denied sickness benefits.
I eventually had to force the government to divulge those figures. And have there been any regular updates since then?
We all know the answer to that, I think.
Let us hope the Scottish authorities get their act together, compile those figures and then take action to help people with disabilities survive the virus.
Otherwise it will make the SNP’s claims to be more caring for people with illnesses and disabilities than Westminster look like a very bad joke.
Scotland has no idea how many disabled people are dying from coronavirus.
Despite public health chiefs in England and Wales using census data to check how hard the pandemic is hitting those with disabilities, Scotland is still in the dark.
Shock figures show that in England and Wales, an estimated 60 per cent of those who have died of Covid-19 considered themselves disabled in the 2011 census. Disabled men under 65 are 6.5 times more likely to die of Covid, while disabled women are more than 10 times more likely.
A separate report from Public Health England also found those with learning disabilities are six times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the general population.
Despite the alarming reality elsewhere in the UK, Freedom of Information requests have revealed that neither Public Health Scotland nor National Records of Scotland have extracted matching data.
Source: Scotland in the dark over how many disabled people are dying from coronavirus – Daily Record
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Time and time again iv said aktion t4 why did our DWP master RTU IDs go to see those famous gates yes indeed .Why but if the peasants find out that they have used the benefits system to cull the stock then I would imagine that they would rise up. But they can’t believe that a government could cull the stock through benefits denial . But alas the figures now are way beyond little figures . But to get the peasants wise to this fact perhaps on fifty years time some of the truths will come out
Why should Scottish Health Authorities put out figures on Disability status?
It is not a Health Condition, it relates to eligibility for Benefits and also relates to Accessibility of premises and systems which is not a part of the health system. DWP is not part of the Health Service.
Benefits is not yet devolved – although that is in process. When it is it will be more integrated with the NHS, but that is not in place.
Scotland is different from England.
We do things differently here.
Er, disability status IS a health condition. What do you think it is?
Are you saying if any of your family had a disability, they would not need – or seek – medical care? Are you saying you wouldn’t?
Scotland IS different from England.
But not so different that the Scottish government denies people with disabilities the seriousness of their condition.