Being disabled may put you on the bottom of the vaccine list

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An autistic actor’s take on vaccine hesitancy by Mickey Rowe to AFRO News

So, if less than half the population want the vax, that means an autistic person who does want it should be able to find an opening for one, I'd imagine.

Right now, it's still very age-centric. They seem to be starting with the elderly.

I've been kind of feeling this.

My older folks got done through age.

My cousin and aunt are being done through work.

My mum got done through work which is messed up cos she should've been done through disability.

Meanwhile, I have 'nowhere to go'. So it's considered ok for me to be at home...

I kind of don't mind cos nowhere is open (except supermarkets - no thanks) so I genuinely do have nowhere to go. But I hope I don't get forgotten about.

Bear in mind this is all pretty much 'what disability?' dependent. They're attempting to help some of disabled people. My cousin and aunt are being dribbled on all day long by SLD kids who need their teaching. By being vaccinated, they're saving those kids from getting the virus.

Fact is that logically I can stay home. It's just a question of how much of that time I should spend on social media.

My biggest fear is that it's going to be mandatory and I will be forced to take it. Or excluded from places and events if I don't carry a vaccination certificate or app. Not that I go anywhere really, but I need to be able to buy food and would like to have the option of going places when I feel up to it.

I'm extremely sensitive to medicines, vaccinations, chemicals and all kinds of mildly toxic stuff really. I'm the proverbial canary in the coal mine. I had a flu shot one year and soon after, got the worst flu like symptoms I've ever had. I ended up with pneumonia, in bed for weeks and had to have 2 courses of antibiotics to recover. No more flu shots for me. My immune system seems to do best without interference from toxins and chemicals.

So I'm terrified of what one of these untested new kinds of vaccinations would do to me. Contrary to what this article seems to suggest, I love my life and want to live as long as possible. It wasn't always this way, before I knew I was autistic, my life was a constant struggle, trying to be something I'm not. I'm not scared the vaccination will give me autism, I'm already autistic. It's being autistic which gives me concern about the vaccination, I'm sensitive, it might harm me in ways it wouldn't harm a NT person or a non-sensitive person.

But of course no one should be discriminated against if they want to be vaccinated. Every life has value, maybe not if you are a murderer or genocidal maniac and are still actively harming people. Which brings to mind some of the high profile people pushing these vaccines. But that's another issue. If we only get one chance at life, which many people believe, then we should have equal opportunities to live out that life regardless of it's quality compared with other lives. What gives anyone else the right to decide the value of my life compared with another life? Unless I'm voluntarily hurting others, then I deserve to have my rights removed.

But really, this is horrible. If they need a system to roll out the vaccines, it should be a completely random method, like via a number in your date of birth or alphabetically, or street number.

I’ve been thinking that even though I’m in an earlier group because I’ve recently had chemotherapy, I don’t think I’m getting the vaccine at least until they’ve opened it up to everyone. Certainly if there are a limited number of vaccines, if there aren’t yet enough to go around, someone who isn’t going to spend much of their life wishing they’d just die already should get it instead of me. And I’ve asked my parents to just let me die instead of having me put on a ventilator if it comes down to that and I’m not in a condition to make the decision, I just can’t see however much more life I have left being worth that.

I wonder if they've studied the efficacy and correct dosage for autistic people. It seems common that people on the spectrum require very small doses, almost baby-sized doses, of medicine. Many of us seem to have adverse reactions to medications, vaccines, and other chemicals.

I'd be curious to know how many autistic people were tested in the drug trials, and what the results were.

I'm still waiting to know if severely immunocompromised people are even allowed the vaccine. My daughter isn't allowed normal flu jabs, but we won't talk to her specialists again for about two months.

The vaccine isn't even available here so we're in no rush.

Very interesting article. A situation where it's beneficial to not be professionally diagnosed, I suppose. But yeah, interesting.. was nice to read the wife's perspective questioning who the doctor was to determine a paralyzed man's quality of life as being low. Same for the autistic author.

I'd rate my overall quality of life as pretty damned good. I'm sure some NT's I know are jealous of the time I spend at the beach, riding my motorcycle, kiteboarding, getting laid etc. Not like I have a terrible life not worth staying alive for.

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What I understand to have come from the phase three trials of three leading candidates (Pfizer-Biontec, Oxford-Astra-Zenneca and Moderna-NIH) is that they showed very good efficacy, even after just the first dose, at stopping people getting so sick that they end up in hospital.

It appears to have formed the basis of the decisions to start with people both at greatest risks of getting so sick they need hospital, and in setting where the risk of one person with those risk factors passing infection onward to other equally at risk people. So where I am, the first doses of the first approved candidate have been over 80 and in care homes (largest group to suffer death in the first outbreak), then work downwards from the highest risk factors to over 80 general, then down to over 75 and looking to over seventy plus clinically vulnerable.

There is not enough data in yet to give a definite answer on how well the immunity from vaccination blocks transmission. There are hunches it will, but as the data showed the candidates blocked getting sick enough to land in hospital, this has been the approach taken, because there is evidence to support it, and reducing people landing in hospital removes one of the biggest risks of death from more things than just covid 19 which is deaths because health services are overloaded and cannot offer the necessary quality o care, or non urgent stuff is postponed and ends up turning into urgent and life threatening.

I've been aware of this for months and it is the thing that freaks me out the most about getting COVID.

I honestly don't care about dying, but if I went into the hospital I don't want someone else to make the decision that I'm useless and have no QOL just because I'm autistic, so I should be allowed to die. I don't have a diagnosis and it still terrifies me.

I understand they have to make decisions like this right now, but I hate that this just reminds me of eugenics. It reminds me of how little a lot of NT people care about us and what happens to us.

Looks like last year's conversations about and actual rationing of hospital care may now carry over in to rationing the vaccines ...

Here Come the Death Panels
Obamacare didn’t lead to rationing. The mismanagement of the coronavirus will.
By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist
March 23, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opin ... rtage.html

I have fears that I could be pushed to the bottom of the list because I'm on the spectrum and we all know how useless everybody thinks we are, even our own parents.

I know this is an unconventional and possibly controversial opinion, but I think that beside healthcare workers and other “front line” workers like gricery store clerks and teachers it should be young people getting vaccinated first, since they’re the ones partying and spreading the virus everywhere. Also they’d be able to get back to in-person school sooner.