Changing Times...

 The Times They Are A Changing...

 

The song written by Bob Dylan 58 years ago now couldn’t ring truer than today as we ride this pandemic wave that is sweeping the world.

It was meant, then, to be a protest song about the civil war and anti war movement but now that title applies equally as well to what we are going through, with the turmoil that is currently gripping the world, and as we’ve seen it’s often fragile population.

 

We are indeed fighting a war to stay alive! Whether many like to admit it or not that is what it is....

 

The rallying call back then is equally important today as then.

 

Of course that was not the intention of the song back then...but who would have even thought we would have such a time, as now, when we are almost frightened to get too close to people for fear we may become infected by this ever powerful virus and it’s many variants.

 

The frustration felt then, as now, is how I feel today with the many anti vaccination people and their posts on social media. We have so many who think they are above the rest or even too young to worry about such things. That they have some self righteous belief that they are okay and nothing to do with them as they may help spread this virus unknowingly to their relatives, friends and workmates.

 

Do they not see the news as it happens? Do they not read the papers or are they just so caught up in some social media drama about who’s wearing what or who had the best, or worst, lip plumping surgery or even the best dance routine!

 

Sometimes it’s all just too much to comprehend as people less unfortunate than they die in some far off land, which isn’t now so far off as it once was, but on their own doorstep and they will gradually come to learn that what they do, and often what they don’t do, has consequences.

 

Come gather ‘round people

Wherever you roam

 

The Times they are a-changing...

*with acknowledgement to Bob Dylan