Collected Item: ““Pandemic Disabled”: The New Disability that was Always There”
Give your story a title.
“Pandemic Disabled”: The New Disability that was Always There
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
text: essay
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
The A.D.A needs a new classification of “disabled”: Pandemic Disabled.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#high risk #complex health issues #isolation #complex mental health #heart prosthetic #discrimination #exclusion #social nullification
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
W. K. Sheldrake (Wayne) is the author of Instant Karma: The Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum, #1 on Outside Magazine Online’s list of “6 Adventure Books We’d Read Again and Again,” and Foreword Magazine’s ‘Gold Medal’ Adventure Book of the Year (2007). He has written on the personal experience of anticoagulants and prosthetic heart valves for Your Health. He is recording his pandemic experience of Pandemic Disability in a memoir The19: Confessions of a Mad (American) COVIDodger. He lives in Southern Colorado with his “high risk” wife where there is plenty of wide open space. They do not currently have a dog.
Give this story a date.
2020-11-01