Day Fourteen:
Whoever decided upon
‘Happy Birthday’ as the ideal length for hand washing against possible C-19 germs, has in
one dark stroke, turned it from one of the best loved refrains, into the most hated.
It will be forever linked with the virus and the
appalling death toll as ‘Ring-a-ring of Roses’
is, correctly or not, associated
with the Black Death.
How many bereaved families are going to want to sing
that at the next family birthday?
How much better it would have been to ask people to
count slowly to 100.