Not being able to see your family or hug someone you love for weeks on end is grim, as many of us are discovering. But as writer Emily Beater argues, “it’s a life that housebound and disabled people have experienced, invisibly, for decades”.
Political and cultural attitudes to tackling coronavirus have forgotten those who are already vulnerable, Emily writes, and for many of those people, the isolation will never be over, even when the pandemic passes.
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