11-20-2020, 12:42 PM
It is certainly important to protect the "vulnerable" people during this Thanksgiving holiday. Unfortunately, Grandma and Grandpa may be part of the problem by encouraging visits from children who live in other areas and have not been able to visit for a while. I see this happening with lots of my friends and relatives who have been real careful to this point. The "just this once" approach is in full swing it seems to me.
Another unfortunate thread in our own Bay Area is the idea that if you are not a "vulnerable" person, it doesn't much matter if you get COVID. That is true in so far as you will probably not die and will probably not have long term issues. However, at this point everybody who gets COVID is preserving the disease in the population, and as long as the disease is prevalent, somebody somewhere is going to get it and have bad consequences. We want the disease to become less common, not more common. That is everybody's responsibility, not just those who are "at significant risk".
Another unfortunate thread in our own Bay Area is the idea that if you are not a "vulnerable" person, it doesn't much matter if you get COVID. That is true in so far as you will probably not die and will probably not have long term issues. However, at this point everybody who gets COVID is preserving the disease in the population, and as long as the disease is prevalent, somebody somewhere is going to get it and have bad consequences. We want the disease to become less common, not more common. That is everybody's responsibility, not just those who are "at significant risk".