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Originally Posted by DNSB
A I have to admit to some admiration for the way that Gabrielle Peters conflated immunocompromised and disabled as though they were synonymous.
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Does she conflate them inappropriately? People usually aren't taking immunosuppressants for shits and giggles, and immunocompromising illnesses also typically occur in a serious medical context, not just in isolation. As it turns out, she is a wheelchair user with chronic illness (I'm guessing autoimmune).
In addition, serious allergies are considered "disabilities" in terms of disability discrimination regulations.
Can Canadians not access an AZ or J&J COVID vaccine if they need to? If not, that's a problem. This writer is low-income, and likely cannot just trot off to another country to access a vaccine that should be available to her. It's also possible she has medical contraindications to an AZ vaccine (for example, lupus coagulant, common in autoimmune disorders, is considered a contraindication here). It would be very rare to have both that and PEG allergy, but not impossible.