"I can’t afford to be worried about Covid restrictions": Clinically vulnerable, facing skyrocketing living costs, and falling through the cracks
manchestereveningnews.co.uk“Having to use a food bank would be my worst nightmare,” laughs John, exasperated. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, he’s been marked as among the clinically vulnerable - suffering chronic spinal arthritis, vertebrae collapse, and multiple joint inflammation.
But two years in, as many people like John voice their opposition to the rollback of the remaining Covid restrictions, his mind is consumed by another set of fears.
In the face of mounting living costs, and an apparent absence of any help, he says he can’t even afford to go anywhere he might catch the virus. READ MORE:The two crumbling Greater Manchester hospitals that were 'fit for the Victorians...
but not fit for us' John first became disabled in 2011, he tells the Manchester Evening News , but managed to keep on working in health care until 2016.
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