A single point of failure for accessibility in a business with as many patrons as a theater is ridiculous. The theaters around here have ground floor access and an elevator for higher up.
I wish we could strengthen the ADA. This theater should be getting a fine for every day their business is inaccessible. Discourage this single point of failure issue
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granted most films are digital these days so they donât have to drag reels up the stairs â but food and drink? cleaning carts?
iâd be extremely surprised if there werenât a working elevator somewhere in that building.
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True, but being made to use a back of the building cargo elevator is not a solution.
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You are completely correct about ADA needing stronger enforcement, but the problem could be getting elevator service people to the building. There is a huge shortage of them. We work with a nearby State College Campus and keeping all of the elevators in the multiple buildings working and inspected is becoming more difficult due to lack of skilled workers. Parts availability is another potential hiccup.
File a complaint with DOJ is you think they donât care or if they are delaying due to cost.
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Nope, thatâs not how that works. Itâs not a violation only if they donât care or if they are delaying due to cost. There are certain specific requirements, and they, in general, are required to make reasonable accommodations. Also, I wasnât the one discriminated against here, so me filing a complaint wouldnât do squat. And I suspect Senator Duckworth can achieve a faster result by using the influence of her office than she can by filing a complaint with the DOJ.
I understand what you are saying about why it may take time to get an elevator fixed. However, that is a problem that is the responsibility of the theater to deal with, not the disabled person. And thatâs why I said that if itâs a smaller indie theater, Iâm willing to allow them more time. But a major national corporation like AMC has no excuse.
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How hard is it not to be a dick?
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As someone who spent time in Haiti doing medical mission work, this kind of story hits home. I donât pretend to have an answer to what is happening down there, but holy shit, what a disaster!
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This. Not to mention that itâs hard to tell the difference in far too many cases.
Okay, retrofitting a historic, listed building is a challenge that will end in some sort of compromise. Some are better, some are⌠not. And even then there are ways to take the edge off a bit.
But anything designed and built over the last couple of decades?
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Holy fucking hell, that is awful. Is it bad that the most shocking part to me, was that this was in UK, not the States? My heart breaks for this young woman, and rages against those wjo denied her humanity and treated her like a problematic thing instead. ACAB is not just a US phenomenon.
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We are not far behind the worst of the red states.
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Well, at least it has a name, not just âweak.â
I keep saying what we are doing is not sustainable. The mental health system has already crumbled. The rest of the system is teetering. And we are too stressed out, exhausted and overwhelmed to do any more than we are already doing. And no one seems to care, unless it affects them personally. I need to keep going for another couple years. After that, we will have to seeâŚ
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Right when youâll start to need a good gerontologist, just like all the other Boomers and older Gen Xers.
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Per the horseshoe theory of medicine which I have just made up, geriatrics and paediatrics are basically the same field.
If only physicians werenât such notoriously bad patients our good doctor would be all set.
Edit: tyop cured.
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Not entirely wrong, but geriatric diapers are a lot more gross. I have always maintained that we are closer to veterinary medicine. We get bit and peed on, our patients canât communicate with us, and the adults involved are frequently a PITA. Donât get me wrong, i love my job. Taking care of kids is 98% fairy dust, Disney princesses and unicorns farting rainbows. Trying to do that while working within a system that is actively imploding, yeah, not so much fun. For example, we were required to move all our referral records to Epic. The wait list for referrals, especially mental health, is insane. (Hah! See what i did there?) Many specialist are over a year wait. Well, referrals evaporate after 13 months. The system removes them with no notice, no record, nothing. We are told we have to place a new referral. Which goes to the end of the line. Rinse and repeat. This has been going on for 9 months. I only found out after trying to find out why my patient had not been seen yet. Yeah, this is a broken, sinking ship. We are doing the best we can while bailing furiously. It should not be this hard.
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Slight quibble: can it have crumbled if it was never really built into anything more than âbarely functionalâ in the first place? I post this from a crumbling office in a 150-year-old hospital which still uses paper charts and struggles to not look like Batman visits us for frequent deposits.
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You have âbarely functional?â Luxury!! Why, we dream of âbarely functional!!â
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Seems like the day for this shit
That changed in April, and now every state is winnowing its rolls â some much more quickly than others. Texas reported disenrolling 82% of its Medicaid recipients, while Wyoming shed just 8% of its rolls, according to an analysis by KFF, a health policy research organization.
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