Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Obviously intelligent and confident . . . wonder what made her turn into a weirdo?

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

It's been an issue for the deaf community since the start of the briefings in England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52323854
And it's not an issue in the rest of the UK, they've been able to do it from pretty much day 1:

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

That sentence is of course massively subjective and completely unquantifiable.

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

From your quote, unable to access crucial information? As in, there were no other sources for her to obtain the information? It's not as if most of it wasn't leaked to the media ahead of time in order to gain public perception.

US comp culture at it's finest.

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Let's hope it's not money or she might end up disappointed, with luck

And we need to ensure that doesn't take root, money doesn't make things better necessarily, one of my eyes is macular off at the moment due to botched surgery, the first thing several people have said is sue but the finest eye hospital in the world will hopefully fix me on Friday and if they do legal action won't even be a consideration for me

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

By and large we won’t ever get a version of “US Compensation Culture”. Our laws on such things are thankfully quite different and much harder to abuse.

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

I'm thinking of joining Facebook & Twitter, then hope someone calls me old and fat.

Bound to hurt my delicate feelings, destroy my confidence, and make me ashamed to leave the house.

I can see the money rolling in now ;)

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

If she gets any money for this "distress" how long before we start seeing adverts" Deaf? Unable to get information due to no BSL signing on 2 occasions? Phone BSLcash4U".

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Moorbridge ?

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Well, the odds are high*… ;)




*if you use a picture of me

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Substitute fields for a bridge?

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

:tu:

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Ah yes my mistake ! I’m sure you’ll receive the absolute best of care

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

What complete bullshite. :td:

First of all this was just 2 times out of 150 or more.
Secondly, it almost certainly had subtitles.
Thirdly, the information was always made available elsewhere.
Also, she could simply have asked someone.

Oh, and what "crucial " information was in these specific instances that she could not possibly find out some other way :confused:

My daughter was pregnant during the pandemic, and didnt watch any daily beiefings, yet somehow she managed without all this "crucial" information. :erm:

Ridiculous claim culture. :dozey:

Re: Deaf woman wins compensation over covid briefings.
 

Deaf people were fully entitled to be told what was being said at all these briefings.

It's already been explained why the provision of subtitles was inadequate.

This has been confirmed by the judiciary. Ironically, the very same Government published this the other day too as part of their levelling up to make things fairer for disabled people in general:

https://www.gov.uk/government/public...ility-strategy