The California wildfires are an example of how quickly you can lose everything. People have lost homes, possessions and some have even lost their lives.

Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. Anything that can impact others will likely hit us faster and harder.

When you don’t have your physical health, your resilience is impaired. Surviving pandemics, wildfires and natural disasters becomes much harder.

Why aren’t we factored into emergency planning? If our needs were accounted for, everyone would be better off.

My latest article looks at how we can (and should) be saving the canaries. How deaths like those of Anthony and Justin Mitchell should never have happened.

If no one is coming to save us, we need to start discussing how we can save each other:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-people-are-the-canaries

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