📮 SWANK Dispatch: My Asthma Is Not a Crime — But Your Harassment Might Be
🗓️ 30 June 2020
Filed Under: asthma discrimination, shielding violation, health harassment, false accusations, community hostility, pandemic vulnerability, NHS guidance ignored, public health failure, legal retaliation
“My diagnosis is severe eosinophilic asthma.
Not ‘difficult mother.’ Not ‘suspicious parent.’
Just: a person who cannot survive your ignorance.”
— A Mother Documenting Medical Fact as Legal Shield
This sharply articulated letter by Polly Chromatic, addressed to the Department of Social Development, is not merely a declaration of illness — it is a legally grounded plea for respect, space, and air.
It outlines her decades-long history with a life-threatening medical condition — severe eosinophilic asthma — and how local hostility, institutional ignorance, and social work overreach have placed her and her children at risk.
🧾 I. The Medical Facts Are Not Up for Debate
From the NHS (UK) and CDC (USA):
Polly is clinically extremely vulnerable (high risk)
She is on continuous oral steroids (prednisone)
Shielding guidance includes:
No uninvited visitors
Avoidance of all triggers (disinfectants, perfumes, stress, smoke, etc.)
Calm environments essential for asthma control
⚠️ II. What the Department Has Done Instead
Ignored shielding protocol
Repeatedly allowed false child abuse allegations based on lifestyle accommodations (no smoking, no toxic products, etc.)
Permitted harassment from neighbours who resist her boundaries
Created stressful encounters with social workers and truancy officers during a global respiratory pandemic
Continued to operate in a way that increases her risk of hospitalisation or death
🧠 III. Clarifying the Actual Issue
This is not about parenting.
This is not about truancy.
This is not about attitude.
This is about:
Medical discrimination
Public misunderstanding of asthma
Systemic punishment of individuals who enforce their own health boundaries
Abuse of statutory resources to pursue false claims while ignoring medical law
📌 Final Point:
“False allegations of child abuse are a crime.”
And so is ignoring a medically documented need for safety.
This letter doesn’t ask for sympathy.
It demands legal and ethical conduct — with the evidence attached.