“Please pray, I’m at the limit of oxygen. If it collapses again, they’ll have to intubate me or risk serious brain damage. I need a miracle to happen ». So wrote Stephen Harmon, 34, on Instagram, just before being subjected to forced ventilation and dying. A member of the anti-vax Hillsong Church, he always proudly claimed not to be vaccinated, until the virus hit him.
He joked on social media, taking up one of the great successes of rapper Jay-Z: “I have 99 problems but the vaccine is not one of them”. Infected, his situation worsened day by day, for a month, when it fell.
A graduate of Hillsong College Harmon was a faithful member of the Hillsong Congregation in California. “He was one of the most generous people I’ve ever met, he had so much ahead of him,” Hillsong Church president Brian Houston writes on Instagram. He claimed to put more faith in his religion “than mortals like Fauci who push people to adhere to specific restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease.” “One of the greatest lessons I have learned during this challenge to Covid – he also said – is this: when you find yourself in a situation where faith is all you have left, there is a depth of trust and peace that it reaches you, because you discover that there is no other option than to choose faith and joy in trials ».