The words I was looking for were “rural communities”.
Yes, absolutely, that's a problem. People in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, isolated communities and indigenous communities, people out east in the Maritimes and in provinces and places that haven't had a large case count of COVID don't go on to have an understanding of what long COVID is, because in the beginning they just didn't have the case count. They just didn't have the experience of seeing it in their communities, but now this is changing with the broad infection from omicron. People everywhere are getting infected and children are getting infected.
Yes, it is a disability to not be in an urban community to have access to care, to have access to doctors who have knowledge and to have access to actual rehab centres, because the centres that you see are provided to communities with high case counts in urban centres.