She said being separated from family back home in Australia during this time has been very difficult.Â
Ms Joyce wasn t able to get home to her grandmother s funeral in December due to flight restrictions and the high costs of hotel quarantine. We have had some major milestones in my family; births, deaths and now a marriage for my sister, and we have been separated for all of them.
Living with her husband Ketut Aprinawan and their three young children, they run a Japanese restaurant that opened just a few months before the pandemic began.
Even so, Ms Joyce said she felt grateful to have access to vaccines in Bali.Â
“As our state takes appropriately aggressive measures to stem the tide of a disease with outsize potential to spread and harm our citizens, we must include provisions to assist families at increased risk of losing power, water and sewer service,” DeAnn Walker, the utility commission chairwoman at the time, said.
But no state money was dedicated to promoting the program to the general public; utility customers not on a special low-income list
were responsible for requesting the relief. And behind the scenes, lobbyists for utilities and trade associations were meeting with state officials in an attempt to hollow out the program.
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