Being somebody from the black community to suffer horrendous inequalities and covid just highlighted how bad it was but it wasn’t to do with the fact that we were making, we were at risk of, we were doing risky behaviours, it was part of the bigger agenda of our health inequalities. And the Government have had an opportunity to address it and they haven’t really addressed it so again we were kind of like, I just find this Government so corrupt but again, they were just using information just trying to twist it. Whereas they weren’t dealing with the proper issues, which was about that the, you know, the poor, you know, they were likely to be working in and having poor incomes. They were living in, you know, multi-occupancies because there were two bedroom family, housing six or seven people, you know. It wasn’t through choice. It’s, you know, and nothing has been done about that.

And I had the awful tiredness, awful, awful, awful tiredness. I would sit down and then fall asleep, burnt dinner, all kinds of stuff. I was a liability really and that.

I won’t have the second one, which is due soon, until I know what’s going on with my arm. So, it’s from the site of where I had the injection so it went from being painful to like I can’t put my bra on. And I can’t hang clothes on the line, putting coats, you know, putting clothes on it’s really, in the gym I can’t do shoulder presses, whereas I was able to do shoulder presses. I can’t do it on that arm. So, it’s really kind of, can’t like carry my handbag is usually on my left arm and I can’t put it on my shoulder. I have to put it like, you know, like the like the posh ladies, over your arm as opposed to on my shoulder [laughs]. And that, so that has been a big downfall for me.

I didn’t have the typical symptoms so I had like diarrhoea first, I was feeling sick and then it moved onto having the high temperature a few days later and I had the horrible pains in my joints, in my legs. It was just awful. I seemed to have lost a tremendous amount of weight in like days and but the weight just feel off of me. I lost my appetite and whatever.

And I was listening to kind of some of the research of particular radio scientist on a particular radio station that I listen to and I just thought, my feeling was that it was bigger than what it was but I don’t think that we, as a nation, were reacting to it. And then my daughter’s birthday was in March, March the ninth, and by that time, people were then, as I mean the nation, was then becoming quite worried because I was quite near Westfield’s in Stratford and so we met there for lunch and you just realised, no, it was Canary Wharf, sorry.

And then we just realised it wasn’t busy. The restaurants wasn’t really busy and yeah, it was just a whole different atmosphere and as March moved on and on and on and on, you just realised that people were worried and then we had the lockdown in March.

I’m a kind of person that, when I’ve finished work, I walk outside the door, I’m concentrating on “when’s the next bus due” or “I’ve got ‘Keep fit’, the bus has got to come quickly, so that I can get home in time for my class”, right. So that’s me as I’m walking down the stairs. And what happens at home is that, so home is a safe haven so you can close off what happened at work no matter stressful was the day, you don’t bring it home with you. But working from home, it’s like that I didn’t have a safe place to go to because I was in my home. I was actually in my home and all I can equate it to is how I described it to my friends and family, it was like you were bringing bad spirits into your home, you know, because there was nothing positive about doing child protection work in your home.