🙃 Our childish obsession with seeing family on holidays is going to kill our families in record numbers. (1/7)
People don't respond well to scolds because they don't enjoy others treating them like children, but what the hell are we supposed to do with the fact that Americans keep booking cross-country trips just to pretend they like their grandmother's sad-ass candied yams???? (2/7)
The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport says "the upcoming holiday travel season... is projected to see the largest number of travelers since the COVID-19 pandemic" at Sea-Tac, despite the fact that the country is now breaking records for daily infection cases. (3/7)
On the NYTimes COVID-19 map, the whole midwest looks like a crime scene. Hospitalizations & deaths are up everywhere. Our state's DOH says "accelerated COVID-19 transmission is occurring across the state and time is running out to reverse course and flatten the curve." (4/7)
Everyone knows—or at least everyone should know by now after the COVID waves following Memorial Day weekend and July 4th—that these small family gatherings spread the virus like wildfire. (5/7)
But despite clear warnings and clear precedent, all these walking Greek tragedies still plan to endanger the people they love in order to prove they love them! And because they earnestly miss them etc. etc. but come on! (6/7)
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