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12intheBox said:
My family is struggling on Thanksgiving plans. We would be about 25 people - coming from 5 different cities - with 4 of those people being over 75.

I don’t know what the right thing to do is. Do we exclude them? Potentially expose them? Cancel it? It hasn’t been an easy choice.
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Here is the right thing to do IMO, we are all having smaller gatherings and usually we head to my Aunt's house (40-50 people) as Italian's come out of the woodwork for holidays. We are having my parents, my sister and her family and that's 12 because my niece (sister's daughter) is going to her finance's parents house.

Other members are doing the same thing, but we will facetime and converse about all the different dishes we prepared. Overall, it's safer for the older people and continues the traditions.
 
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I’ll continue to say - I don’t like seeing crowds of people for any reason right now. Not rallies where I support the cause, not sporting events, not protests, not parties, none of it.

I know we can’t exist as a society without a good deal of face to face. I myself spend every work day in the most trafficked building in my city. I have to for my job and I can’t raise my family without my job.

but all of this optional shit, I think it’s all a bad idea. The virus doesn’t care why we gather. And if it’s bad for one ideology, it’s bad for the other.

masks help mitigate - and should be worn - but they are only mitigating.

as far as Covid being done now that the election is over - I expect the opposite. I think now we are going to see a massive effort on the federal level to fight this. I think this will involve more mandates - more information campaigns - more tracking, tracing, and testing. I also think this additional attention will continue to receive pushback - and even more so considering who the messaging is coming from.

I don’t know when this will go away or how. I do believe that we all need to work together to try to control it as best we can.

stay home when you can. When you can’t - wear a mask.
 
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Allen2McVay said:
Ummm ... No

Masks help limit the spread ... not prevent.

And, as long as Covid is spreading (not everyone is wearing a mask or social distancing or taking other reasonable precautions) the virus remains out there to be spread.

Wearing a mask is not a savior but it is most certainly not Bull Shit either.

You can't possibly think 'wearing a mask is total B.S.' ... Can You?
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Yes...100% B.S. There was a recent study that 85% of a large sample people contracting covid-19 were avid and consistent mask wearers.

And, cases have risen "dramatically" recently. That shouldn't happen if masks were any bit of a decent deterent.

This virus dies off if it has no where to go. Obviously a mask doesn't stop them!
 
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OldSchool said:
Best wishes brother
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Thanks.
So far not terrible.
Fever that is not extreme, comes and goes, tire easily and some other mild symptoms.
The weird thing is how the fever comes and goes and the weight drop has been crazy so far.
Four pounds a day.
 
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fearsomefour said:
Thanks.
So far not terrible.
Fever that is not extreme, comes and goes, tire easily and some other mild symptoms.
The weird thing is how the fever comes and goes and the weight drop has been crazy so far.
Four pounds a day.
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Yeah one of my good friends has it. Very slight cold and for a few days lost his sense of taste but never smell.
 
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Karate61 said:
Yes...100% B.S. There was a recent study that 85% of a large sample people contracting covid-19 were avid and consistent mask wearers.

And, cases have risen "dramatically" recently. That shouldn't happen if masks were any bit of a decent deterent.

This virus dies off if it has no where to go. Obviously a mask doesn't stop them!
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again, masks are much better at stopping you from spreading it than they are at stopping you get it

My mask is for you - your mask is for me.
 
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Karate61 said:
Yes...100% B.S.

Obviously a mask doesn't stop them!
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Ignoring all the facts, information, world-wide data and U.S. numbers ... along with every qualified epidemiologist on the planet ... is certainly one way to go.

It's deadly ... needlessly deadly ... but it's one way to go.
 
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