Coronavirus: The shielders turning the word 'vulnerable' on its head

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As shielding ends for the 'elderly and vulnerable' will the world they are about to be re-enter be less accessible than the one they left four months ago?

This weekend shielding will officially stop. The "elderly and vulnerable" who have followed stringent rules will re-join society and follow the same social distancing precautions as everyone else. But some are concerned they will not be able to shake off the label "vulnerable" and the world they left four months ago may be less accessible than before, as the BBC's Octavia Woodward explores.

The deterioration of disability rights began at the start, in March. News articles pondered that some disabled people might be denied treatment should they get Covid-19 and there were reports that others wereWill the one-way systems in shops use the route with the lift or the stairs? How will those who are deaf, lip read when everyone is wearing masks?

As a Member of the House of Lords she sits at the heart of government, yet when I asked her what she thought of the V word, she didn't mince her words. ''There was a lot of excitement, a lot of nervousness. None of us had ever done an action in our lives before," she recalls. "Some people had barely come out of their front doors.""The police, frankly, did not know whether to pat us on the head and give us an ice-cream or try to arrest us."

The funding that allows me to choose boyfriends without considering their care capabilities is expensive. During the 2018/2019 financial year, councils spent £22.2bn on social care. But this is less than pre-2008 levels before the financial crash hit and austerity measures were introduced. And yet the number of people who need funding is growing."We're going to go into a big economic downturn, and that's not good news for us. So we have to be ready.

 

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