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> This is how we do wheelchair ramps in ex-USSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUfeLWyv1I

Even though your wheelchair ramps are shitty, you are still, in a way, ahead of America because you at least made an effort to build those ramps, whereas America mostly doesn't have them at all.

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I would say that no ramp is better than a dangerous ramp. And I've seen many wheelchair ramps in the US.

Watch the video and see how many times a disabled person not wearing full protective gear would have been wounded or killed by the ramp and you'll probably change your mind.

I am not defending the quality of those ramps, but in some cases, a ramp can be useful so that an assisting people could move a person in a wheelchair up the stairs, even if the ramp is not usable for a person in a wheelchair alone with no assistance.

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