Thanksgiving is going to be pretty rough this year for a lot of families, but between the election and COVID-19, it's probably worth listening to Dr. Fauci and consider skipping it this year altogether.
Coronavirus precautions will result in a very different kind of Thanksgiving for many people this year, himself included, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.
“It is unfortunate, because that’s such a sacred part of the American tradition, the family gathering around Thanksgiving, but that is a risk,” Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, told CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that given the current spread of Covid-19 and the uptick in infections, people need to be very careful about social gatherings, especially older people and those with underlying conditions.
“You may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering, unless you're pretty certain that the people that you're dealing with are not infected. Either they've been very recently tested, or they're living a lifestyle in which they don't have any interaction with anybody except you and your family,” he said.
He added that travel on planes and public transportation could increase exposure to the virus.
“My Thanksgiving is going to look very different this year,” Fauci noted.
Just stay home this year. It's not worth it.
Oh, and don't forget, this is Donald Trump's fault for the abysmal response by the federal government to an ongoing pandemic, now in it's tenth month, that we're no longer pretending exists.
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