Five Things You Need To Know About Celebrating Thanksgiving This Year
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The safest way to celebrate this year is to do so with members of your household only. The CDC is now stressing that point, as well. So, if you do choose to celebrate with friends and relatives from outside your household, you need an action plan to reduce the risk of exposure.
Here are five important recommendations:
- Limit the number of people – fewer people means fewer opportunities for exposure, and you’ll have more room to spread out.
- Require masks when not eating or drinking.
- Use physical distancing when eating. Try to seat people at least 6 feet apart. Eat outside if you can.
- Consider being tested for COVID-19 before traveling or gathering. It’s not a guarantee, but it can help flag illnesses. Remember to self-isolate between the test and the event.
- Be prepared to self-isolate for 14 days after traveling or participating in any event that involves people from outside your home.
Read more at The Conversation.
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I am doing just that me myself and I are getting Chinese the night before so we do not have to cook 😉 Aunts are at their homes, bf is on shift and I have been invited to go there but said no. Not taking chances with my health.
Actually, there is a better way, Mike. Do it virtually. Everyone prepare their own meal and sit down at the dining room table at their own home with their cell phones own speakerphone and partake. This year I and my new dog are having Thanksgiving dinner together. Of course, last year it was Rascal and I but time moves on I guess. This new dog, named Rivers. will likely have his dog food and “Puperonies” for dessert and I will have some sliced turkey for lunch and dinner ad watch football. The dog likes to tear apart boxes and envelopes for fun so we are good to go. The kids will call in during dinner and we will have our conversation and we will call it family time.
I will reminisce about the old days when we used to all gather at mom’s house and watch football while we talked and ate enormous amounts of turkey and dressing and, of course, pumpkin pie. If dad were still alive there is no doubt he would be a Trumper and insist that we should still get together and not worry about the fake virus. We would get into our usual argument and not speak for months. But hell, what are family for anyway if not to argue with.