El / Bee

@elsbee.bsky.social

they/them 🐝 freelance motion designer🌻drawing cats and yapping about books twitch.tv/elsbee linktr.ee/elsbeemotion

if you're considering volunteering at your local library then now is a great time! libraries (especially children's libraries) get super busy over summer and many run extra programs over the holidays so we need all the help we can get!

Eugenics is alive and well in the UK. I need people here to start @ ing their local reps and getting active about disability rights in the UK. It's disability pride month start showing up for us in actionable ways. I will list some resources below 💜

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨TODAY, the UK removed people aged 75–79 from routine Covid vaccine eligibility. While countries like Canada continue offering vaccines to higher-risk groups, the UK keeps narrowing access. Policy choices have consequences! #ClinicallyVulnerableAwarenessDay <19th July>

AUTUMN 2027 - COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY

16 MILLION CLINICALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE GONE FROM THE ELIGIBILITY LIST SINCE 2024.

Not because they got safer. Because the policy changed.

HOW ELIGIBILITY COLLAPSED

20.5M

7M

7M

4M

2024

2025

2026

2027 (AUTUMN)

Source: JCVI eligibility criteria 2024-2027; ONS population data. Figures approximate.

OUR RISK DIDN'T DISAPPEAR. THE PROTECTION DID.

POLICY CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

TODAY:

PEOPLE AGED

75-79

REMOVED FROM ROUTINE COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY ON AGE ALONE.

EX

THAT'S

4 IN 5

CLINICALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE NOW DENIED A FREE COVID VACCINE.

COUNTRIES LIKE CANADA STILL PROTECT CLINICALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE.

#ClinicallyVulnerableAwarenessDay