Well, it looks like Americans aren't heeding the warnings...just like they didn't over Thanksgiving...and there will be another surge of hospitalizations and deaths...just like there was two weeks after Thanksgiving...
Whether Americans will travel or not over the holidays seems to be more of a political than a practical decision. I frankly don't get it. It's like making driving drunk or now wearing a seatbelt political. How many people would start driving 90 mph down the freeway as they smoke weed if Trump told them it's OK? Answer: millions of idiots would (sigh).
My family and friends have said, hey, we've gotten through this unscathed so far (two of my friends didn't make it, actually), and we shouldn't indulge ourselves now, particularly since a vaccine is around the corner. Wouldn't it be a shame if we infected one another now?
So we've decided to simply postpone Christmas. We've set a date for all getting back together: July 4. It's a national holiday, so everyone will have time off. We'll gather at someone's house and exchange gifts and play games and catch up on everything we've missed, including lots of hugs. And yes, we'll have a turkey! Barbecued.
I've talked to twenty-three people and they've all agreed to this plan. Everyone agrees, it's just too dangerous to travel right now, and if we congregate, any one of us unknowingly carrying the virus could infect everyone else. It just isn't worth the cumulative risk!
So I guess my question is--if we can quickly and easily agree to something like this, why can't everyone else? Does everyone feel that entitled/deprived? Are the warnings of the experts not penetrating all those thick skulls? I'm baffled. Republican or Democrat, this virus makes people suffer and kills some of them. Isn't that an outcome we want to protect our loved ones from at all costs???