CDC: Sick & Disabled Lives Don’t Matter

From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, disability justice advocates have warned that the US government’s response smacked of eugenics.

On January 7, 2022, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made the US government’s embrace of eugenicist logic shockingly clear.

“The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least 4 comorbidities,” Walensky said in a media briefing. “So really these are people who were unwell to begin with and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicron.”