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Firsthow does the disabled body deal with the novel coronavirus?

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There is now a torrent of information about how to deal with this novel virus, from social distancing to self-isolation to praying for a future vaccine. There is little engagement with how other bodies should deal with this issue.

What of those who do not have a home, or cannot stay? This is not an idle question anymore, but an existential one. The disabled body can only hope to illustrate that the idea of an autonomous individual body was always a deeply injurious fiction. People are all interconnected, both by the microbial and interpersonal vulnerabilities Disability Reflection always haunt us and by the social and collective care infrastructures that could minister to heal broken bodies.

The learn more here of disability in a time of COVID reveals the poverty and cruelty of an individualistic, as opposed to a social, reformulation of Disability Reflection, vulnerability and, now, being. Living my entire adult life with microbial dangers alerts me to a second order of concerns: the silence around structural changes. I address two. The appalling collapse of health- care systems suffering decades of dismantling now reveals itself as the fundamental logic motoring the current public and epidemiological panic.

But Disability Reflection leaders frittered those moments away like so much detritus from the past. If individualized forms of care were once championed and are, today, dying, many countries will witness the birth pangs of a forcedly emergent system of health care that must now work for all if it works for one.

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Then there is the connected paradox of our military infrastructures in the face of this singular pathogen. Yet today, as the nuclear bombs, supersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic jets remain idling, silent, comedically impotent as they confront the Disability Reflection logic Dosability the coronavirus, citizens must not stop asking: Of what actual use are these weapons? Today, as the globe confronts a truly planetary crisis, everyone might remind them- selves of a third cheery proposition: Today is only a window into the future emergencies to come.

Endangerment is collective, even if it link asymmetric on this planet. Time, bodies and places are now connected in a manner heretofore unprecedented. Against those Disability Reflection at many of our doorsteps, the hidden hand of the market and the pleasurable splendors of unbounded consumption will not hold. Quick fixes are phenomenally ineffective, as astute observers have now seen.]