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2020 look back #1

December 26, 2020photography, UncategorizedArt, corona virus, Covid-19, digital art, gratitude, pandemic, Photoshop Elements, WHOAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

As we approach the end of 2020 and before we welcome in 2021 I thought I would look back at some of the key moments from this past “annus horribilis”. On March 11th I combined this image of our world with the corona virus just as it was all beginning, and wrote:

‪”Today the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Our thanks to all the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers here and around the world working so hard day and night for all their patients and communities but especially to BC’s Dr. Bonnie Henry for her compassion and leadership.”

Here we are over ten months later and the pandemic continues but miracle of miracles during this time vaccines have been developed and there is now a light at the end of our long dark tunnel, and of course those thanks continue every single day.

a day of remembrance

September 11, 2020Photo Essay, Uncategorized9/11, 9/11 Memorial Museum, Covid-19, first responders, frontline heroes, healthcare heroes, humanity, photography, Remembrance, WHOAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

The letters for this quote from Virgil displayed in the Memorial Hall of the September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York were forged from remnant World Trade Center steel by blacksmith Tom Joyce.

Seeing the crushed remains of Ladder 3 on our moving visit to the museum in 2015 the sacrifice and bravery of those 343 firefighters of the New York City Fire Department who were lost that day together with an additional 68 emergency workers and the 2566 innocent lives they were trying to save has been a lasting memory.

On this 19th anniversary of that terrible day as we remember them all together with those lost at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, we now have too many other lives to remember and mourn, and for whom those words of Virgil could also have been written.

Six months ago today on March 11th The Director General of the WHO declared that, “COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.” On that day there were more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people who had lost their lives. Today, September 11th 2020, there are 28,412,026 reported cases and 915,088 deaths worldwide.

The First Responder Heroes of 9/11 and those heroes on United Flight 93, together with the Frontline Heroes and Healthcare Workers of today who have also lost and continue to lose their lives saving their fellow citizens are all in our thoughts on this solemn day.

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March 11, 2020UncategorizedCovid-19, pandemic, WHOAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Today, March 11th 2020, The Director General of the WHO declared that, “COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.” Our thanks are to all the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers around the world working so hard, day and night, for all of their patients and communities, as we send sympathy to families who have lost their loved ones and wish a full recovery to all those still in hospitals and intensive care units around the world.