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After sitting with @chrislhayes and @syramadad last night I could not stop thinking about family gatherings, especially Thanksgiving.
I want to go on the record- I am so over this pandemic.
But the pandemic is not over us, not at all.
is my poorly distilled take.
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I want to go on the record- I am so over this pandemic.
But the pandemic is not over us, not at all.
is my poorly distilled take.1/
Each family I know is looking for a way to gather *just a little bit* for Thanksgiving.
"Just my parents, maybe my brother."
"We've been really careful."
"I get tested for work and my kids get tested for school."
These are quotes from my friends and family.
IRL
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"Just my parents, maybe my brother."
"We've been really careful."
"I get tested for work and my kids get tested for school."
These are quotes from my friends and family.
IRL
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I try to make them feel better.
"There ARE some ways to gather safer," I say.
- "Eat outside"
- "Keep it short"
- "Get tested and quarantine before"
Because I feel bad being the messenger of constant sad news.
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"There ARE some ways to gather safer," I say.
- "Eat outside"
- "Keep it short"
- "Get tested and quarantine before"
Because I feel bad being the messenger of constant sad news.
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But that glosses over the big issue.
Millions of people will make small decisions on how to gather "safer" over Thanksgiving, and fraction of those decisions will fail.
We don't know which ones they will be, but they will add up.
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Millions of people will make small decisions on how to gather "safer" over Thanksgiving, and fraction of those decisions will fail.
We don't know which ones they will be, but they will add up.
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I said in @voguemagazine:
"We need people to act responsibly and locally, to make small changes that will add up in the larger communities.
We need to act responsibly in our families and in our communities and encourage others to do the same."
5/ https://www.vogue.com/article/covid-19-holiday-plans
"We need people to act responsibly and locally, to make small changes that will add up in the larger communities.
We need to act responsibly in our families and in our communities and encourage others to do the same."
5/ https://www.vogue.com/article/covid-19-holiday-plans
There is no better example of that than Thanksgiving.
If only 100,000 Thanksgiving dinners transmit ONE new case of COVID-19, and those 100,000 transmit to 100,000 more, we continue to spread this virus, exponentially.
Like drops of gasoline on a wildfire.
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If only 100,000 Thanksgiving dinners transmit ONE new case of COVID-19, and those 100,000 transmit to 100,000 more, we continue to spread this virus, exponentially.
Like drops of gasoline on a wildfire.
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This isn't about one family or one dinner.
Its the aggregate of all the dinners on the same day.
If lots of small acts can help us get out of this mess, then others can also keep us in it.
This sucks.
But we don't have a choice.
Stay strong people, help is coming.
/fin
Its the aggregate of all the dinners on the same day.
If lots of small acts can help us get out of this mess, then others can also keep us in it.
This sucks.
But we don't have a choice.
Stay strong people, help is coming.
/fin
