Posted on 11/16/2020 6:43:49 PM PST by conservative98
Celebrating Thanksgiving by entering someone’s home and spreading a lethal infectious disease is a little too darkly ironic anyway.
Take the opportunity to think about what you love most about the day. Focus on how to re-create that, and even build on it. Maybe learn to cook one of the dishes that someone else usually brings to dinner. Think of the people you actually look forward to seeing, and call them. Think of the people you don’t look forward to seeing, and don’t call them. Appreciate that you can’t get cornered by some annoying second cousin; you save money on travel; you don’t have to pretend to care about football.
Maybe most important, this year is an opportunity to bond over the moral certainty of the moment. At its core, Thanksgiving is a nebulous day of atoning for the sins of colonialism by eating food and saying thank you. Now families and friends and communities can work together to achieve something meaningful and good: ending the pandemic. All you’re asked to do is eat food at home.
Whatever you do, take heart that this radically different pandemic lifestyle doesn’t have to last too much longer. By next Thanksgiving, if the news of an effective vaccine proves as fortuitous as it sounds, we can go back to whatever traditions draw people to this day. This is a onetime deal. Next year will be an opportunity to be thankful for the elements of the holiday that we tend to take for granted. It will be like a Super Thanksgiving. Or maybe this new way of doing it will work so well, you’ll never want to go back.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I like food as much as the next guy. But given the historic crisis, let's get creative and maybe take a year where we don't pretend to gain absolution from colonialism via gathering indoors for prolonged periods and eating food. https://t.co/qXalM7TQlI— James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) November 17, 2020
Soy, pajama boy.
Cancel The Atlantic.
The Left has wars on ALL American holidays and traditions
These fags at the Atlantic can take a turkey leg and shove it up their asses! Of course they probably do that every year.
FOAD, Soyboy!
I’m glad James Hamblin won’t be there.
Romans 1:21
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
The left acts like everyone has covid. We don’t.
...entering someones home and spreading a lethal infectious disease....
LOL....a .6% 'lethality', drama queeen.
I wonder if Hamblin would enjoy being fed his own brains like the scene from The Silence of the Lambs, naw probably wouldn’t taste good.
These fags at the Atlantic can take a turkey leg and shove it up their asses! Of course they probably do that every year.
Only when gerbils are in short supply.
Ungrateful Day?
Next year this will all be behind us??? Really??
This lockdown/restriction thing was supposed to last a couple of weeks, to flatten the curve so hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed.
Here we are, 8 months later, and no end in sight. What was supposed to last 2 weeks has lasted about 16 times as long as predicted, and it’s still going on.
“The Left has wars on ALL American holidays and traditions”
Not Martin Luther King’s birthday!
Don’t underestimate James. He will gladly put a bullet through your skull given half a chance.
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You first clowns. Let's see how many of these Atlantic clowns actually skip the turkey and have a salad. Give us an enumeration of all Atlantic clowns.
This lockdown/restriction thing was supposed to last a couple of weeks, to flatten the curve so hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed.
Your overlords demand that you forget they ever said that! /s
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