Designed to protect at-risk sectors of the community, lockdowns also created vulnerabilities – particularly among young people.
was running. In the depths of a Melbourne winter, when everything else had stopped in its tracks, there was something about running through the streets of her neighbourhood, the rhythm of her breath and the purpose of her gait, that made her feel as though she were getting somewhere, even if she always finished in the same place she started. She had run since she was a girl. Now that she was 23, it felt as though running was the only thing in her life that still made sense.
She’d done internships with not-for-profits in Indonesia and New York, and she had a placement lined up at an intellectual property firm in the city and a part-time job with the Victorian Supreme Court. Anyone smart enough to get into law school, let alone complete the degree, knows how insanely competitive the job market is for its graduates, and Gabrielle thought the stint with a Melbourne firm would round off her CV nicely.
“A lot of the rhetoric I get is ‘Why don’t you just eat more?’. It is so obvious what the problem is. I think that eating disorders, for a lot of people, are a coping mechanism.” “I don’t think people were,” she says. “We threw money at breadwinners, we threw money at industries, we threw money at employers, but did we throw serious money at schools to help them pivot towards online learning in ways that are more meaningful? ‘Keeping your granny safe’ isn’t really a message that is going to cut through for every young person. There was a complete failure to think about the communication required.
mortality rate of 0.002 per cent, or one death for every 50,000 cases. At the same time, the impact of lockdown was more potent for these people and the losses greater.
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