Pandemic Thanksgiving

 We have been very careful during this pandemic, at least to the degree that health care workers can be careful.  We work in a hospital and one of us works directly with sick COVID positive patients, so there is that.  Outside of that, we do very little that has any risk at all.  We mostly go home and see only our bubble.  Over the summer we saw people outdoors at a distance or indoors at a great distance apart.  People like our grandchildren and our closest friends, and not often.

We had hope for a physically distanced but possible Thanksgiving with our children, which consists of three separate bubbles.  We set up small tables ten feet apart in a very large room in order to do so.  But now, because so many people cannot be bothered to wear a mask in public we just cannot do it.  The hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients, so because some people cannot be safe, we all pay the price.  It is both incredibly sad and infuriating.  Literally thousands will die and have died because of this selfish and willful ignorance.  I am thankful today that I have been careful and I hope that we can eventually all agree to protect others because in the end it protects us and those we love.  It is also the first Thanksgiving in 32 years that I have been a parent that I will not be celebrating with all of my children.