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NHS in London, England. | Reuters/Toby Melville On a cultural level, COVID-19 did not create as many problems and challenges as it revealed and escalated. Like the medical co-morbidities that made the virus more dangerous and more deadly for individuals, cultural pre-existing conditions only worsened during the pandemic. Social distancing and lockdowns, for example, made our pre-existing cultural problem of loneliness that much worse for many. In the same way, the general, widespread disregard for the those with intellectual disabilities in our culture made their mistreatment during the pandemic easier as well. For example, during the first wave of the pandemic in Great Britain, various facilities that care for people with intellectual disabilities, what the Brits call “learning disabilities,” issued blanket “Do Not Resuscitate” orders. These orders came, according to one source, directly from doctors, without consulting the patients or their families. ....
DNR orders for Britons with learning disabilities called ‘immoral’ A baby born with Down Syndrome is pictured in a file photo. The chairman of the English and Welsh bishops’ Department for Social Justice expressed distress that people with learning disabilities were given Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) orders during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters) By Simon Caldwell • Catholic News Service • Posted February 18, 2021 MANCHESTER, England (CNS) Medical orders against attempting to resuscitate patients with learning disabilities during the latest COVID-19 lockdown in the U.K. are “wholly unacceptable and immoral,” said the bishops of England and Wales. ....