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If you understand the unique character of our republican democracy, you can find calm in this anxious time. In six days, Joe Biden will be inaugurated President of the United States. He may not have been your candidate. That disappointment is a luxury of being in a democracy.
The orderly transfer of power from one administration to another is something unique to the last few hundred years among almost the entire swath of human history. It transpires again next Wednesday. I would encourage you to watch and appreciate the moment at 12:00 pm EST on January 20th, remember how unique our American experiment in self-government is. And, how fragile.
Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital. Jenny Kane/AP
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability.
The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her low quality of life, wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her care.
Out of that quiet fight in early spring, the advocates staff at a disability rights legal group, a state lawmaker and a few others discovered something disturbing: There were many cases in Oregon of health care being rationed to people with disabilities.