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Martinair Cargo Boeing 747-412(BCF) (Reg:PH-MPS) at 35,000ft.
Away from the pavement
Dublin - Ireland
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Deine Fürsorge und Liebe haben mich durch die schwere Zeit getragen - ohne Dich wäre ich noch nicht gesundheitlich da wo ich jetzt bin. Danke für alles!
Dedicated to my husband John, who took care of me in the last weeks when I was SARS-CoV-2 positive.
Stretching 120km from the Belgian border to the Baie de Somme the sublimely beautiful Opal Coast – named for the interplay of greys and blues in the sea and sky – features lofty chalk cliffs, rolling green hills, windswept beaches, scrub-dotted sand dunes and charming seaside towns that have been a favourite of British beach lovers since the Victorian era. The coast is dotted with the remains of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall, a line of fortifications, artillery emplacements and massive, reinforced concrete bunkers built to prevent the Allied invasion that in the end took place in Normandy – Wissant, Côte d’Opale, France.
29 September 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – The Netherlands now considers all of Belgium an orange travel zone, meaning it advises against all non-essential trips to the country. In addition, anyone who travels to the Netherlands and has been in the Brussels-Capital Region, the city of Antwerp, and a couple of other areas in Belgium is “urgently advised” to quarantine for ten days upon arrival. Since I’m living in Ghent I’m not impacted and I’m still good to travel to The Netherlands if it wasn’t for the fact the Dutch government is expecting five thousand new infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus every day by next week, and therefore, will implement stricter and more drastic restrictions. The new restrictions that will become effective tonight at 6:00 pm include that employees must be encouraged to work from home with the possibility of employers being held responsible if a cluster of coronavirus infections affects their workforce. An impacted business can be shut down for up to two weeks! In addition, bars and restaurants will be closed early and public gatherings are discouraged. I’m wondering how my Dutch friends will react now that their government has tightened some of Europe’s most relaxed coronavirus rules. Today’s picture is of the Dutch parliament and the skyline of The Hague – The Hague, The Netherlands
in which the gingerbread men wear masks.
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en la que los muñecos de gengibre llevaban mascarillas.
In deze vreemde, onzekere tijden met de dreiging van het coronavirus die ons allemaal raakt, waar we ook zijn, is het goed om hoop en vertrouwen te hebben. Ook blijft het belangrijk om een veilige afstand tot elkaar te houden. Alles om gezond te blijven.
Wees alsjeblieft verstandig. Voor ons aller veiligheid.
Trust
In these strange and uncertain times with the threat of the coronavirus looming over us all, wherever we are, it's good to keep some hope and trust. Also, it remains important to keep a safe distance from each other. Everything to stay healthy.
Be safe, people. And please be responsible.
Anziano signore calmo e assorto nella lettura seduto su una seggiola di cortesia fuori dal supermercato. Elderly gentleman calm, collected and absorbed in reading sitting on a courtesy chair outside the supermarket. Candid. Street shot. Cameraphone. Bologna 2021
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
We are NOT "post-pandemic" or "post-Covid" and I am sick of hearing this from main stream media, politicians and prominent businesses.
First, we cannot unilaterally declare that a pandemic is over due to the very nature of a pandemic.
Second, just looking at the month of JUNE to date, we have 10X the number of directly attributed Covid hospitalisations for 2022 than we did for the same period in 2021 or 2020.
Hospitalisations are rising 30-40% week on week at the moment. Why? We're facing a wave of Omicron BA.5 which is even more infectious than previous Omicron variants but, worryingly, doctors are reporting that it is infecting lower down into lung tissue as we saw with the Alpha wave. Secondary pneumonia is now a major issue again and hospitalisations are rising across ALL age groups. Omicron evades vaccine immunity and there is NO natural immunity to Omicron. People are being re-infected with Omicron with repeated infections reported as being worse and worse.
Ignoring the acute risks of Covid, of which there are many, there are now multiple wide ranging and conclusive studies by institutions such as Harvard that are showing that every single Covid infection, no matter how 'mild', is causing permanent internal damage.
Damage to the brain similar to that in Parkinson's Disease.
Damage to the pancreas causing onset of Diabetes.
Damage to lung tissue.
Damage to the gastrointestinal tract.
Damage to cardiovascular endothelium and clotting factors resulting in a 3X increased risk in heart attacks, strokes and pulmonary emboli for at least 6 months post-acute infection.
More importantly, it is causing degradation of your immunity. SARS2 causes reduction in your immunity and damage to T-cells similar to that of HIV, leaving you wide open to opportunistic infections that you would be unable to fight.
SARS2 infection prematurely ages you! Telomeres are the end protections of our chromosomes that you can think of as being similar to the end plastic pieces of a shoelace. These gradually degrade over our lifetimes as part of the ageing process. It is a known quantity and studies have shown that even mild infections of Covid are causing damage to the telomeres of our chromosomes equivalent to 10 years of biological ageing.
Early in the Covid story some people openly called it 'airborne AIDS' because some of the genetic code of the virus is identical to HIV. It may have been tongue-in-cheek at the time but Covid is causing this kind of damage.
Ask yourself why we have rising infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis in children, monkeypox and polio to name a few. We have a massive population with post-Covid immune deficiency.
Even the Bank of England has reported that we are facing a collapse of economy with increasing rates of 'long Covid' affecting the workforce.
All of this information is easy to find in peer reviewed medial journals at revered institutions such as Harvard or in The Lancet. SARS2, as it's predecessor SARS, is a multi-system disease spread by microscopic airborne aerosols.
Keep yourself safe because your government does not care about you.
Protection is not rocket science. Mask in poorly ventilated places and when indoors with an FFP2/3 well fitting mask. Open windows for ventilation and demand that workplaces and public facilities install suitable HEPA filtration. Washing your hands helps against many diseases but it will not stop you from catching Covid.
Surgeon moments before emergency procedure on a Covid patient, Florence, Italy, 2020
Remembering those who gave their lives
I did not name this image some weeks ago nor did i ad a description to it, but i did wanted to express the fear i felt of what is about to come towards us.
Fear gets us alert so we prepare, like looking both ways before crossing a street. You don't want to look up in the sky and close your eyes while crossing.
Panik will get you most likely in panic and you buy toilet paper with no food stored. Don't run over the street in panic.. cause you know your not looking out for danger.
Zeiss Planar T* 85mm F/1.4 ZF2 with adapter. to GFX
7 April 2021: During the week from 28 March to 3 April an average of 4,266 people tested positive for SARCoV-2. The figure is down 11% on the week. However, there are still 3,053 patients in hospital of which 865 in intensive care. Experts expect that the downwards trend in infections soon will translate in a reduction of patients in hospital. In summary, 10 days after the stricter corona measures were introduced there is a ray of hope, but it’s very fragile. Whilst we’re challenged by the coronavirus our tulips are weathering a late winter spell – Ghent, Belgium.
The Lac d’Emosson (1930 m) is a reservoir that was created at the beginning of the 1920s by the construction of a 78 m-high gravity dam built by the SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) with the aim of covering the company’s power requirements. The Lac d’ Émosson is the starting point of a network of superb hiking trails and mountain routes – Salvan, Valais, Switzerland
Near the main canal in the center of Utrecht. Twilight.
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Tussen de Maartensbrug en de Gaardbrug. Daglicht en kunstlicht.
20 October 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic –Yesterday was the day that the tightened measures to stop the rising coronavirus infections, hospital admissions and deaths in Belgium that were announced before the weekend became effective. Yesterday was also the day that one of Belgium’s lead virologist said that if everything goes according to plan, there could be a vaccine in the spring, with Belgium envisaging the first vaccination campaign between March and June. Knowing that even with the vaccine, not everything will suddenly be fixed and that we will not be able to drop all the measures at once it looks like we are in for one of the most difficult winters ever. The mood of the picture reflects well today’s grim reality – Meetjesland, Belgium
18 March 2021: In the week to 14 March 3051 people tested positive, this is an increase of 28% on the week. Also, the pressure on hospitals has increased significantly in recent days: more than 2000 people with Covid are hospitalized and more than 500 patients are now in critical care. Hospitals have been instructed to set aside half of all their ICU beds for Covid patients, meaning that elective surgery will be postponed again. Meanwhile, the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine continues to make headlines across the world and has been a major topic of discussion in Belgium. We are one of the few countries in Europe that continues to use it. In doing so, Belgium is following the advice of the EMA, which has said that the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks. They say that so far, no causal link between the vaccine and blood clots has been found, and that the incidence of thromboembolic events in vaccinated people does not appear to be higher than in the general population. Later today the EMA will issue an updated opinion on the safety of the vaccine after a more in-depth analysis of the data. Today I’m posting another vignette from the Aiguille du Midi - French Alps, Chamonix, France.
Dos científicas bien equipadas, con instrumento científicos de última generación, exploran lo grandes asentamientos del SARS-CoV-2, descubiertos entre las estalactitas de rocas caliza que penden en lo alto de una cueva de la Edad de Piedra. Estos virus, causantes de la última pandemia, que han estado tranquilamente colgando de sus columnillas sin preocuparse de lo que ocurría en el mundo, en esta época, la actual, llena de cambios medioambientales, se han desmadrao, y saliendo del Neolítico se han presentao en el siglo XXI con la intención de quedarse con nosotros haciendo mucho daño y causando gran mortandad y ruina económica.
Esperemos que estas doctas investigadoras, que no son rusas, consigan, en su arriesgado y peligroso trabajo, neutralizarles por el bien de la humanidad, o no.
6 December 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – While all coronavirus indicators continue to drop, Belgium has now carried out over six million tests since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. An average of 2,178 new people tested positive per day over the past week, which is a 17% decrease. Over the past two weeks, 293 infections were confirmed per 100,000 inhabitants, which is a 54% drop compared to the two weeks before. Over the last week an average of 187 patients were admitted to hospital. Finally, the reproduction rate stands at 0.803. For many Belgian towns and cities yesterday was the first big test for safety in corona times since the reopening of non-essential shops. To monitor and control crowds Ghent introduced an online barometer to keep a measure of the crowds in the city center. The barometer employs data from car parks and mobile phone operators, albeit anonymously. Shoppers quizzed about the situation said that they are happy with the corona measures adopted in the city to keep shopping in the metropolis safe for all. On display today is another cityscape from downtown Ghent – Ghent, Belgium.
1 November 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – Belgium crossed the barrier of 20,000 daily coronavirus infections. At the moment, 6,438 people are hospitalized for covid-19 in Belgium, with 1,105 of them being in intensive care units. The number of infections and the number of hospital admissions are rising so quickly that Belgium announced last Friday that it will activate a lockdown as of Sunday night. Hence, yesterday was the last day of trading before the emergency break to curb the increase of infections becomes effective. I would have expected that people would stay at home and the shops would be empty, but nothing was less true, there were huge crowds in shopping streets and big queues outside retail outlets selling non-essential goods. In summary, crowded shopping streets shamed our country the day before the lockdown becomes effective. Obviously, it didn’t sink in that it is now or never and that this is our last chance to avoid a nationwide tragedy. Why are people ignoring the fact that we are heading for a crash of our healthcare system and that this irresponsible behavior may result that hospitals will soon have to choose who they treat and who they don’t? We need to demonstrate a collective responsibility in combatting the pandemic, if not, we’re heading for a misty future - Damme, Belgium
Even the "Playmobil" are fighting the coronavirus.
Do like him, wear a mask.
Même les "Playmobil" se battent contre le coronavirus.
Faites comme lui, portez un masque.
Saint-Nazaire
FRANCE
15 December 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – The increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the Netherlands, with nearly 10,000 new infections per day, made the Dutch government to pull the emergency break and to install a “strict lockdown” as of last night. While Dutch testing strategy is similar to the Belgian one, 522 infections per 100,000 inhabitants were confirmed over the past two weeks in the Netherlands, compared to 225 in Belgium. Said that, the number of infections in Belgium has risen for the second day in a row. Some hope that the Xmas holidays will calm the figures down a little, but still these early signs urge the question if we need to anticipate a steeper increase and follow the Netherlands and Germany and implement stricter measures. The Belgian government is meeting again to re-evaluate the coronavirus measures on Friday. Some argue that stricter measures will just hit the people who are already following the rules and are making a case to drive compliance. I would argue in favour of both, implementing stricter rules and driving compliance more aggressively. Anyhow, I wish the government courage and wisdom at their upcoming meeting. To cheer you up I’m sending you postcard greetings from the Geldersekade downtown Amsterdam – Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
8 November 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – The average number of people testing positive per day over the past week has fallen with a quarter. Belgium also reported a slight fall in the total number of patients being hospitalized with the virus, however, the pressure on intensive care units continues to rise and the number of deaths has gone up. The reproduction number came down to 0.99. There was also other good news. Last evening the US media declared Joe Biden as next president. What a week! This was a close election, far closer than it should have been, and there is simply no excuse for that. If we were looking at a foreign country with America’s level of political dysfunction, we would probably consider it on the edge of becoming a failed state. Anyway, let’s hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us and that the US slowly but surely will recover from the deepest political crisis it has seen in decades. On display today is a panoramic shot of the Graslei, one of the most beautiful spots in the center of the city – Graslei, Ghent, Belgium.