Cal Expo Monorail Night Scenes at the Fair

this video of the monorail at the california state fair captures the sacramento mid summer heat & light so well.  light in california.  my home for the last 53 years.  a place i hope where i will die.  the videographer's done a magnificent job.  i love the fair.  i miss it.  we didn't attend the fair the summer before last for reasons i don't remember why, & the fair was cancelled this past summer because of the pandemic.  every year the fair is the same.  the theme changes but the fair proper, in essence, is always the same sort of attractions & exhibits years on end.  such is my reason why i love it so much.  what about summer 2021?  i don't know.  the vaccines, i think, will be rolled out en masse by mid-summer.  but i don't know if the vaccination rate, which i've read should be around 75% of the population for effective mass immunization, will be achieved by mid-summer.  i fear it won't be.  not by then.  however, we live in unpredictable times.  what i know right now is that the pandemic is fucking raging.  nearly 3000 deaths daily in the u.s.  & today we got a text on our phones from the california state government that warns us that community spread is out of control & to stay indoors as much as we possibly can.  the audio accompanying the warning text was imperative, dramatic.  i almost leapt out of my skin.  wear a mask.  avoid large gatherings.  once upon a time these things happened to other peoples, other countries.  not to america.  or so i - we - was taught.  what seemed impossible was impossible until that moment when it was possible.  like disease.  like war.  like famine.  like political instability.  we all live on the same planet, breathe the same air, & drink the same water.  we are no longer insulated in the u.s. anymore.  we are all human beings.  we can't get thru this alone.  so as i render myself into near incomprehension by the magnitude of our problems in this young century i can still sing, in the phrase of brecht, the darkness, within & outside of our selves.  & dig the beauty of a mid summer night at the california state fair.