Ms Pamela Morrison:

I got infected when I came back from the UK. I lived in the UK and I came back to visit my parents for their anniversary in the April. I also worked in pandemic planning and I am a crisis manager. The irony of this is not lost on me. It is now four years and I have never gone back to my house in London. My life is on hold. Any long-Covid patient would say that he or she is in limbo. That the person may have been high achieving and was someone who contributed to society and then was left, gaslit and not listened to creates - as Ms Morrison said - a grief. People feel they would have become a shell of their former selves, only for this group and being able to fight. It will not be lost on the committee that we are all women. Chronic illness is something that affects women significantly. The frustration is very real and us keeping a lid on it today is also going to have ramifications I am sure because we will be very tired tomorrow.