Things are better, we have several highly effective vaccines available to us American and it would seem that the worst is behind us.

However, this is not the time to relax our guard. Just as with any slasher movie of the 80s the villain is not yet fully dead and if we drop out weapon and stumble outside to weep, we’ll face him once more. No, we’ll not go back to the first act, but there is still death ahead.

Right now, nearly every person who dies from COVID 19 is unvaccinated and the responsibility for those unnecessary losses lie with the death-obsessed cult that the modern Republican Party.

Slavish, cultish, and idiotic devotion to a cheat, a liar, a racist, and narcissistic twice impeached former president has led vast swaths of our country to reject the simple actions that would save lives. The more votes that went for the GOP in the last election in a county the lower the rate of vaccination. More than a year of disease and death has proved inadequate to dislodging the need to prove one’s devotion to team red. Now the Delta variant is spreading quickly through the unprotected population, more contagious than the original strain it represents a serious danger to the unvaccinated and those unable to procure or accept vaccination due to their own unique health conditions. Without vaccine acquired herd immunity which Red Staters seem intent on foiling this pandemic will continue, people will die, and the only voices heard from the right will be cries of anguish over imagined crimes of Critical Race Theory.