When COVID-19 hit Australia, I quickly accepted as common sense, all Department of Health recommendations on personal response. Masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing and keeping up to date with immunization were part of my immediate and ongoing response to COVID-19.

The community is now much more relaxed about Covid 19. We have transitioned from red to orange and now the green traffic light is on the issue.

That relaxed attitude is not for me. It was, is, and will continue to be a red light disease for me for the rest of my life. I have not had Covid and will do everything I can for things to stay that way.

I continue to mask up, clean my hands, physically distance – and that is the way it will continue to be.