Tim Jin is one of the people celebrating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance stating that vaccinated people do not have to wear masks. It is not because he is against masks or tired of wearing one he is unable to. Jin, 46, has cerebral palsy and frequently drools. Fabric next to his mouth quickly becomes too wet to wear.
Like most CDC announcements since the start of the pandemic, the latest has been met with confusion and mixed feeling including among those in the disability community. Those with immunocompromising conditions and parents of disabled children in particular havebeen concernedabout the change, given their or their children’s high-risk status. It seems like it will be impossible to know who is vaccinated and who is just getting away with going maskless. But the disability community is not a monolith. For some with intellectual and developmental disabilities, like Jin, the CDC’s announcement that it is safe for vaccinated people to be mas
After Trump acquittal, accountability is still sought
Updated February 20, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Impeachment is a political process â real test is in legal system
Before we bemoan former president Donald Trumpâs second impeachment acquittal as proof that the rule of law in America has crumbled, we should recall the oft-cited fact that impeachment is a political process, not a judicial one. Politics has never been about equal protection under the law; rather, it has been about pleasing voters in order to gain and retain power. Republican senators voting to acquit were in some sense merely complying with the desires of many of their Trump-bedazzled constituents to protect their hero.