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2020-05-01
Used PPE
A photograph of the soiled PPE at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. -
2020-03-25
At least 2 Toronto hospitals begin rationing protective gear as COVID-19 crisis deepens
Early news article about rationing PPE. -
04/08/2020
State Policies May Send People with Disabilities to the Back of the Line for Ventilators
An article by Liz Essley Whyte describing policies on medical rationing, state by state, and the efforts by disability advocacy groups to enforce equal access to lifesaving treatment. As disability rights activist Ari Ne’eman states in the article, ‘There is a long history of people with disabilities being devalued by the medical system. That’s why we have civil rights laws. We don’t have an exception in our country’s civil rights laws for clinical judgment. We don’t take it on trust.’ As Matthew Foster, an Alabama resident. says, ‘I have a right to live.’ -
2020-04-16
Humans of Covid-19 AU: Felix
“It’s strange that as days go by, I'm reminded very much of the time when I was a young boy in Shanghai, under the Japanese troops, and we had ration books. I was about 8 and I would have to wake up at 4.30 or 5.00 in the morning for sugar or rice. So there's the same kind of feelings of stress, with tension in the air. Instead of Japanese troops around, there's a deadly virus menacing us. I don’t really have to adjust to this life; it’s the young people that have to. We don’t go out that much anyway in non-corona conditions. I listened to Bill Gate’s Ted Talk given in 2015, where he spoke about precisely this, and how we were not ready to handle a pandemic. In that sense, some knowledgeable people could have predicted this. In terms of immensity, this is probably one of the biggest possible events imaginable.” Instagram post on Felix, a facilitator, and his experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples’ lives. -
2020-03-29
Rationing at Walmart in Belmont, NC
Walmart in Belmont, North Carolina hangs signs in the toilet paper aisle limiting people to how many products they can purchase at once. They state: “we respectfully ask you to limit your purchase to 1 per item.” -
2020-03-20
toilet paper gone at Publix
I went to the grocery store on March 10, 2020 before schools closed down etc in Tallahassee and the major grocery store in the area was already almost out of toilet paper. This was before the started rationing it (1 purchase per customer) -
2020-03-21
Adams supermarket, Deep River, Connecticut, 8:15 am,
One sign shows the store tried rationing. The second sign shows it wasn’t enough. -
2020-03-13T19:43
Rationing
To prevent hoarding, supermarkets limited the sale of certain high-demand items.