Checkout: it seems the Tory governent may be encouraging people with disabilities to check out of LIFE, after promising to arrange supermarkets to deliver groceries to them and then reneging on it.
Claims that some people with disabilities could slip through a government safety net and be left to starve are understated. Where is the safety net?
According to Disability News Service, the government announced that 1.5 million disabled people had been categorised as “extremely vulnerable” to the virus and would receive regular deliveries of basic groceries if they do not have their own support network of friends and family.
The list includes those with severe respiratory conditions, many people on immunosuppression therapies, and those with certain cancers.
DNS quoted a disabled Baptist minister who raised concerns that people with disabilities who were not on the government’s list would be left to starve to death.
But here’s my concern:
I have family members who qualify for this help – according to the criteria listed by the government – and haven’t heard a single word about regular grocery deliveries for them.
It raises the question: who actually is on this mythical list of people who qualify for such deliveries? Who compiled it? Does it exist at all?
Or is it as fake as the government’s claims about personal protective equipment, coronavirus tests and ventilator supplies?
Remember: the government has ordered the NHS to deny coronavirus treatment to anybody with the disabilities in its list, if they contract it.
This Site would be keen to hear from anybody who has been contacted about receiving deliveries of supplies from supermarkets – on grounds that their health condition qualifies them for it.
Let’s find out the truth of this.
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