Sadly my niece died this morning from Covid-19 after spending the last 7 weeks on a ventilator in hospital in Nottinghamshire. She was aged 53. She had been fit before. I believe that the stats we are given by the government are understated, particularly since in the budget the Furlough has been extended to the end of September. The figures may be three times or more what they are. I had the vaccine the AstraZeneca on the 25th February.
There has been talk of some of those that have died have been healthy people. On closer inspection this isn’t the case. Many underlaying health conditions are either undetected, yet to be diagnosed or not yet classified.
She had in December a fall on her knee and in December had a knee operation and yet throughout she was still working. She picked the virus up at a hospital opd, and was diagnosed with COVID in first week of Jan......
Tragic BUT 7 important risk factors will be classified as no ‘underlying conditions’ 1. Increased waist circumference 2. Pre-hypertension 3. Pre-diabetes 4. Inc Triglycerides 5. Low HDL 6. Severe vitamin D deficiency 7. Severe psychological stress
I am heartbroken by the passing of Helen Blackman, my niece, taken so young, but I am buoyed by her ethics, her values, her faith and inspiration to all who knew her, she gave her life to helping all those around her, not least the children that she positively fought for and valued in safeguarding, Helen was always trying to help others. As Director of Children's Social care in Nottingham, she was focused on protecting vulnerable children and helping families. She was damn good at it. Helen was a strong Christian and her light still shines - In The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis gives this description of heaven: "But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world ... had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before." "For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a world where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand." --Randy Alcorn, Heaven.
I don't believe in any religion, I trust in science, but I have so much respect and admiration for anyone who protects children from abuse. That life she led must have had so much satisfaction to her every day as her raison d'être made her life so much more important than many others' lives who don't help the vulnerable.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ts-could-be-fast-tracked-in-uk/#ixzz6oBkHV85r This is a bit worrying.
I don't know, I only ever went in churches for a cool down or a snooze on a back pew, been to a local one in Canada for coffee and doughnuts.
You're my sort of guy, Druk1 I went into the oldest church in Cebu City when my wife went to pray before she took a flight and I was mesmerised by the balloons stuck to the ceiling. I do like the Spanish-influenced architecture of old churches over there. The one below is in Daanbantayan, North Cebu Island. Inside:
