As restrictions lifted in mid-December, my world closed down. I’m so disappointed by the rhetoric of our leaders of ‘personal responsibility’
‘It still stings when Covid-related deaths are prefaced with a caveat about “underlying health conditions” – because that is what I have, and I love my life.’‘It still stings when Covid-related deaths are prefaced with a caveat about “underlying health conditions” – because that is what I have, and I love my life.’Last modified on Fri 31 Dec 2021 06.24 GMTn 14 December I took my last shopping trip, stocked up, and went home.
Living with an underlying health condition during the pandemic has been incredibly difficult. Despite government claims that people at risk would be prioritised for vaccination, my health providers didn’t know when or how I could get vaccinated, leaving me and many others to roam government websites searching for an appointment. I was eventually allocated to an inner-city hospital with a very low vaccine supply, and I wasn’t able to change this allocation.
Despite government promises, Australia moved out of lockdown before vaccine rates for many at-risk communities reached the levels set for the broader community, in what I think is a careless and avoidable decision. The way the Perrottet government has managed the transition from lockdown has been nothing short of bizarre.
More than 18 months after my previous article, I was asked as a woman with disability about how I am feeling about Covid and the end of lockdowns. But my lockdown has not ended; it will continue until there is a coherent plan from our leaders that doesn’t leave people with disability behind. I feel undervalued and forgotten. I feel that my life is seen as less important that those without disability.
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