With Thanksgiving around the corner and COVID-19 coming on like the Tet Offensive of 1968, Jeff Tiedrich and I were on the same page over the weekend. Thanksgiving, fascists, and the virus were on our minds.
I wrote about them on Sunday here and on Twitter, and earlier this morning. People are making adjustments to their holiday plans to work around the pandemic. Some people, anyway.
The Associated Press reports:
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation’s October health tracking poll, two-thirds of the public are worried they or their family will get sick from the coronavirus, up 13 percentage points since April.
It does not take a lot of imagination to figure who is in the last third. Many of them were without masks out in the streets of the nation’s capitol on Saturday. Defeating the virus should be a patriotic thing to do, but patriotic these days is yet another contested concept.
Americans gave their lives storming the beaches of Normandy to defeat Nazism. They ate Thanksgiving dinner out of mess kits. #MAGA & @realDonaldTrump must find it abhorrent to wear masks and forgo a single Thanksgiving to defeat a virus now killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
My father-in-law would have eaten his Thanksgiving dinner in 1944 somewhere in Alsace near the German border. My wife believes her dad and buddies in his unit might have kicked Trump’s #ProudBoysUSA asses as pieces of fascist shit. Just sayin’.
My friend Asher was waiting in line this morning to get a COVID test at Judiciary Square in Washington, D.C. People were lined up down the block.
“This better be the last asteroid ever,” said the last dinosaur ahead of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction.