Judy Soroka describes the lack of opportunities to treat or manage her chronic back pain during the COVID lockdowns, the general degeneration of her health, and loss of friends due to her choice to not get vaccinated. In 2009 a doctor gave Judy a new treatment for her back pain and she maintained it for years with exercise but she said all that stopped, "when the lockdowns happened, I could not go to the gym. I could not swim. And I began to have more pain."
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Samantha Lamb describes the delays on longtime required surgery, truncated physiotherapy and resulting inability to work full-time and reduced pay due to the incomplete treatment that she received as direct consequences of the COVID shutdowns. When she was told her surgery was elective and not required, Samantha said, "I wasn’t capable of functioning. I wasn’t capable of taking care of my family. I wasn’t being able to be a mom of four kids. It’s really hard when mom breaks down."
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