Prayers...

According to an article in the Guardian, a quarter of adults in the UK have watched or listened to a religious service since the coronavirus lockdown began, and one in twenty have started praying. The most frequent subjects of prayers since the lockdown has been family (53%), friends (34%), thanking God (24%), the person praying (28%), frontline services (27%), someone unwell with Covid-19 (20%), and other countries with Covid-19 (15%). So a quarter of prayers have been to thank the creator of the universe for… well, what exactly? For sparing the prayerful petitioner, and choosing to kill someone else instead? Being omnipotent, God could have spared everyone from the horrors of coronavirus, but decided, in his infinite wisdom, not to.

It seems like the air itself is trying to kill us. My neighbour’s white doves are dying, one by one, from some air-borne respiratory disease. And here’s a local farmer’s tribute to the NHS…