“Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?” (Delta Dawn/Alex Harvey-Larry Collins)
As I read the Groundhog Day News, for today (As in the movie Groundhog Day, which is a repetitive, cycle of life’s trials and tribulations), and ONCE again how the threats which COVID continue to hold in its vice-like grip upon this nation and world…the song Delta Dawn began playing in the obsessive section of my brain! The Delta Variant, (WHO has changed the names to protect the nations from Trumpism-backlash), has and IS, now reminding us, Nature is a WINNER, as we continue to lose lives to a VIRUS. The faded rose of days gone by maybe in the form of masks, and isolation, and quarantine, but just as the lyrics of the sung suggest, HE may come back, and sadly drag too many millions to some mansion or shanty in the sky! We are all delighted to be free, BUT honestly does, and will THIS moment of FREEDOM come with an awful price?
BUT then as I obsessed about the lyrics of Delta Dawn (singing them over and over again in the NICKELODEON part of my cranium) my mind wandered to those who HAVE DECIDED that somehow death, dying and doom, are just a day in the life of someone else and CERTAINLY NOT THEM. I mean to suffer from CONSPIRACY, is JUST ENOUGH disease a simpleton can handle! But then I thought, “WHAT THE FUCK,” are the VACCINE DENIERS just the same mindset and evil intended as SUICIDE BOMBERS…YEAH, SUICIDE BOMBERS, strapped with enough evil to murder a few hundred or thousand. And who think, somehow THEIR cause, THEIR selfishness, THEIR corrupt intentions will bring GOOD. Think about it…you are UNVACCINATED…your friend and family who have kids are NOT VACCINATED, or friends and family who have precarious immune systems, or your other BUDS, who are as stupid as you…DELTA VARIANT will strap itself to YOU, and WHAM BAM…NO THANK YOU, MA’AM, death is all around you!
