Disability activist Stacey Park Milbern discussed “navigating COVID-19 as a ventilator user” at a May 6, 2020 California Care Rationing Coalition Press Conference, shortly before her death on May 20. In this YouTube video, she talks about being at high risk for death from Covid and losing access to care workers who had been exposed. She notes that Santa Clara County had recently issued a public safety alert asking ventilator users to identify themselves “for county inventory,” sparking fears of medical rationing and the removal of ventilators from disabled users for redistribution.
— Mara Mills
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Format: Youtube Video
Creator: Stacey Milbern
Link to Video: https://youtu.be/Oy3WgvCZEjg?feature=shared
Post Date: May 12, 2020
Caption: #Covid19 #NoLicenseToKill #NoBodyIsDisposable
Stacey Milbern shares her concerns about care rationing as a ventilator user at a May 6, 2020 Press Conference with the California Care Rationing Coalition.
California’s “draft” #Covid19 guidelines would put seniors, people of color, disabled & fat folks at the back of the line for treatment. Urge officials to reject plans that sacrifice those hardest hit by the coronavirus. We’re not having it.
#NoLicenseToKill #NoBodyIsDisposable #DontRationOurCare