Fox News Doc: It's Time For COVID-19 Patients To 'Come Off' Ventilators And Either Survive Or Die

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45. I find this sort of discussion absolutely terrifying.

I know and love people with severe disabilities, some of them on ventilators.

To say "at some point, they will have to come off the ventilators" is only true because we have a shortage of ventilators, which is entirely the fault of this fucked up administration. People can live for years being ventilated, and when done outside the context of an ICU it can be managed. One of my friends with muscular dystrophy was on a vent for more than two decades. He used a power wheelchair to get around. He had a wife, an apartment, a job he loved. He also had support from his local independent living center.

Sometimes I feel as though the disability rights movement never happened. Certainly, to imply, as this doctor does, that we should just start switching off the vents and see what happens--that kind of callousness scares the shit out of me.