So putting it all together.

 Perhaps I am too old.   Things do no go into place as quickly now as when I was younger.   Reading into local authorities and their responsibility for ensuring the Health and Safety of Places of Worship, what suddenly came to me was just how unprofessional some approaches were to the Covid crisis.    It is of little value telling people that there should have been a proper 'risk assessments' made on any decision, or where in doubt the local authority should have been contacted.   People placed themselves in charge who had little experience and believed they could do what they liked, and almost damn the consequences.   They just ignored anyone who said that there were rules.

Let me say that the majority were acting from good motives, but not all.   A dispute did break out about the fourteen windows which should never have been opened in winter.   But only personal arguments ensued and the committee took authority back.  People did realise that people were freezing and complained and I, who do not just write but tried to bring the matter to the attention of a 'leader', was just told "Well, we cannot please everyone". In other words 'Sod Off"   As I said there were no risk assessments made.   Yet the matter was straightforward.   In winter both emergency doors, which almost faced one another, were opened.    But add to this fourteen windows which were part of a sloping roof and stood over the heaters.   It was obvious that the windows just sucked any heat the radiators gave out, and any ventilation was gone since ventilation depends on the movement of  hot air mixing with colder air.   Temperatures inside the Church soon were the same as temperatures outside the Church.   This was grave negligence, and certainly put the lives of parishioners at risk and especially the old and vulnerale, opening them up to infections of many kinds and not just Covid, which of course is more active in low temperatures, as a proper risk assessment and discussion with people who were more professional, would have shown the team.  There was a problem with common sense since any opening of any door or window was seen as clearing out Covid, ventilation, when in fact the action may well have been inviting Covid in.

So why am I writing this.   I believe that in Health and Safety matters no one has the right to take authority, unless he or she has taken advice on regulations and how they apply.   There is also the fact I have spoken of before, that those who took authority into their own hands and preached to the rest of the parish, should never have been in a position to do so.