Posted on 11/25/2020 11:50:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Anthony Fauci says it’s because people are not following his guidance that they ought to be punished by being alone and away from family on the holidays. Go punish yourself, but not us.
I reached out via the family group chat on Facebook messenger. I said I wanted to come home to New England for Thanksgiving, I missed my extended family, and asked if anyone would see us.
I wrote: “Hey fam, We’d would really like to come to New England for Thanksgiving and see all of your beautiful faces. Would I be welcomed or are we too scared of covid? Don’t want to make anyone feel weird, I just super miss you guys.”
I was nervous. What if even reaching out was considered verboten? What if this in itself was crossing some kind of line that would make my family think that I wasn’t taking the stupid virus seriously enough and they would think badly of me? I held my breath.
It was only a minute or two before my little cousin—not so little now, with a family of her own—replied that she’d be glad to have us up. “You can come stay with us,” she wrote, “we’d be glad to have you.”
My heart leapt! Family! It’s been so long! I haven’t even met my cousin’s babies yet, or seen her new house, and I can’t wait. Normally we make trips north during the summer months, and this summer, we stayed put in New York. It was sad and depressing, and I couldn’t imagine another several months going by without seeing everyone.
But that’s exactly what New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio wants New Yorkers to do. He wants us to sit home and be depressed, to have virtual celebrations. He has urged people to stay home, to spend holidays alone. So have numerous other politicians.
“I hate to say it but I have to urge all New Yorkers — do not travel out of state for the holidays,” de Blasio said. “Realize that by doing that, unfortunately you could be putting yourself and your family in danger and the risk of bringing the disease back here.”
New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo swooped in as well, to issue more restrictions on gatherings in the state, limiting indoor gatherings of private citizens in their private homes to 10 persons or less. This includes any holiday celebrations.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has proclaimed his intention of spending the Thanksgiving holiday alone, without grandkids around. Fauci said it was because people are not following the guidance on coronavirus management that they ought to be punished by being alone and away from family on the holidays. He said that the risk of out-of-town guests is just too great.
“That is unfortunately a risk, when you have people coming from out of town, gathering together in an indoor setting,” Fauci commented, when asked about the tradition of families getting together for Thanksgiving. “It is unfortunate, because that’s such a sacred part of American tradition — the family gathering around Thanksgiving. But that is a risk.”
Around the world, leaders are demanding that citizens forego family, community, gatherings, and holidays. In Paris, officials have said Christmas should be cancelled. In the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson said that the new round of lockdowns will end on December 2, but there were also reports that police could be called in to break up Christmas dinners if households aren’t complying with new isolation rules.
This virus that has killed the vulnerable is also destroying our way of life, and it’s not because the virus is forcing us into giving up what makes life worth living. It’s because our leaders are so terrified of being perceived as handling it wrong, or being too soft, that they are restricting our movements and imposing guidelines that won’t stop the virus, but will certainly end social cohesion.
There is a virus, and it needs to be dealt with, but in many ways, the governments have done what they can. But a virus is going to virus. While officials may think they are helping by shuttering businesses, forcing people out of work, denying children an education, closing cultural institutions, and restricting citizens from enjoying the holidays, they are not. Lockdowns are not helping anyone but those progressive, leftist leaders who would prefer an economy and society where all people are dependent on the government for everything they might need, from income to health care to permission to celebrate holidays.
These restrictions are being used to control, coerce, and terrify people. It’s not right. Elected leaders, government health advisors, and municipal bureaucrats do not have the right or the authority to stop Americans from their right to peaceably assemble, whether it’s to stage a protest (something leftist leaders have no trouble authorizing, praising, or taking part in) or to enjoy a turkey dinner with family.
These leaders and their authoritarian dictates on what free citizens may and may not do need to be defied. For starters, have Thanksgiving with your family if you want to, and make plans for Christmas that do not involve Zoom calls and distance. Have a hug, and meet your new baby cousins.
We need to learn how to live with the presence of this new contagion, and not to have it prevent us from living at all. I’ll be in New England for Thanksgiving, and I can hardly wait.
Smoking a prime rib on the grill this year. Something different.
OK that picture does NOT look like Thanksgiving dinner, since each person only has one plate. At our house, there would be the dinner plate (fairly heaped up with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, green bean casserole, corn, and sweet potatoes), a bread plate, and at least one bowl for cranberry sauce and/or fruit salad.
Maybe they are on a diet?
“Go punish yourself”
That’s pretty close to my own thoughts.
How many ribs? What wood will you be using?
Ignore the dictates of the nanny state and refuse their medical services.
I didn’t want turkey this Thanksgiving because I had already cooked and carved one up recently and did not want to do that hassle again. We are having ham.
Our church soup kitchen is having an overwhelming call for Thanksgiving dinners this year. Our pastor asked for volunteers to cook a turkey at home, carve it and bring it in. I got to do that again after all:)
In a sane world, Fauxi, Cuomo, Blasio and a bunch of other governors would have been already arrested, tried and facing a death penalty sentence for mass murder and crimes against humanity. Especially, Fauxi. HE is the one that funded that CCP bioweapons lab over there with millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to develop this crap. It’s no wonder that he now has his own private security detail...he has the blood of thousands on his hands.
That is why the vaccines have to come ASAP.
“You’re all under arrest.”
Excellent article!
Thanks for posting it!
I have two things going into Thanksgiving I want FREEPERS to keep in mind.
The first is that THIS OUTCOME WAS THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME. It would not have mattered if Trump got 100% of the vote, there was no way the deep state would have let him win. He won in a big enough landslide that they had to expose the fix to defeat him. This was the best he could have done.
The second thing is WE ARE MORE UNITED AS A COUNTY than we have been in a long time. If you look at the electorate as divided into thirds with the left, right and middle, then Trump brought the middle to our side as evidenced by the landslide which he won by. So we are very united. It is only the media that makes this seem not so.
3 ribs, about 7 lbs. Just the wife and 4x kids. My folks are 800 miles away and my wife’s mom is positive for COVID, so that’s ruled out. (Just a fever and some body aches, she’s good.) And I’m partial to applewood.
I am. We are having 10 people over. Leftists are criminal and I will not follow them.
JoMa
That’s the plan.
Sorry to hear about your mother in law. Have a good Thanksgiving.
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