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The only piece of good news in this extremely grim moment is that you actually can do something. You can save lives right now by getting on the phone with people you love and talking them out of in-person Thanksgiving. https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1327400656328507392
Send people this interview with an ER doctor in Billings, MT. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/13/934475099/hospitals-in-montana-strain-under-covid-19-spike
Send them this @edyong209 article. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/
We have vaccines coming in a few months. We have a federal response coming in the spring.
But *no help is coming* right now, it's just us. If you have any leeway left with family and friends, this is the time to use it.
But *no help is coming* right now, it's just us. If you have any leeway left with family and friends, this is the time to use it.
Why do I tweet non-stop about Thanksgiving? Because we're NINE WEEKS into a case surge and only FIVE WEEKS into the rise in reported deaths. People who die today won't show up in the data for weeks. Maybe too late to change minds about the holiday.
And Thanksgiving is an indoor multi-generation travel-to-attend holiday centered around eating food—which you can't do masked. If you wanted to custom-build a covid-spreading event, it would look a lot like traditional US Thanksgiving.
