Your Thanksgiving Dinner

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

My family wasn't intending to go today. I'm waiting at home to get tested on Friday because I was around a person who I didn't know got infected with COVID. I am currently quarantining. I haven't showed any symptoms yet which means I haven't gotten infected or the symtoms have started appearing later (I was around the said-infected person on Friday) I'm glad I didn't go out. Makes me feel proud that I didn't unintentionally infect people. I'm proud of my family for staying home.

Also, F#ck you posters who went and gambled with other people's lives.

What a pathetic human being

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

My family wasn't intending to go today. I'm waiting at home to get tested on Friday because I was around a person who I didn't know got infected with COVID. I am currently quarantining. I haven't showed any symptoms yet which means I haven't gotten infected or the symtoms have started appearing later (I was around the said-infected person on Friday) I'm glad I didn't go out. Makes me feel proud that I didn't unintentionally infect people. I'm proud of my family for staying home.

Also, F#ck you posters who went and gambled with other people's lives.

What a pathetic human being

What is your solution then, watch my relatives die?

I don't freaking care if you celebrate. Just stop trying to make everyone's life as sad as yours is just because you don't get to have fun.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

My family wasn't intending to go today. I'm waiting at home to get tested on Friday because I was around a person who I didn't know got infected with COVID. I am currently quarantining. I haven't showed any symptoms yet which means I haven't gotten infected or the symtoms have started appearing later (I was around the said-infected person on Friday) I'm glad I didn't go out. Makes me feel proud that I didn't unintentionally infect people. I'm proud of my family for staying home.

Also, F#ck you posters who went and gambled with other people's lives.

What a pathetic human being

What is your solution then, watch my relatives die?

I don't freaking care if you celebrate. Just stop trying to make everyone's life as sad as yours is just because you don't get to have fun.

Your bad priorities aside, don't you just want this pandemic to end?

I want kids back in schools, students back at colleges, intercontinental travel reopened, bars back in service, workers back in offices, concerts, in-person sports games, and the rest of it. America being shut down sucks, and that's exactly why I'm covid-cautious.

Personally, I'm not scared of the virus (or really much else), but I just want my life back. That's not going to happen until case counts go down, and case counts won't go down until we quit having big gatherings and being militant mask-wearers. If you get together with 10 people, there's a 1 in 4 chance somebody is infected. That's just probability. The fewer large gatherings we have, the faster America reopens.

While I don't care about half the stuff you listed and wouldn't sacrifice Thanksgiving/Christmas for the other half, we tried this for three months until Independence Day. We didn't make any serious progress towards resuming those activities, and it is clear that they have zero chance of happening until mass vaccine administration. These gatherings have zero bearing on that end result.

OTOH, these senseless restrictions shouldn't exist in the first place. My travels away from my ananarchical authoritarian nightmare of a home allowed me to go indoor dining/bars over 20 times in the past month without an ounce of the terror and anxiety that warped me for all of Q2. Things can be normal for people who choose to let them be. The number of cases will never get to a place on it's own to give us that permission.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I'm sorry, but lockdowns hurting your feelings is not a good enough reason to put others at risk.

A) Nothing about what I said is related to my feelings. "Lockdowns" are not even in the  present Overton Window of American discourse for good reason and as such I haven't even discussed them. You've simply taken a common retort and said it in response to something that doesn't apply at all because you don't have the capacity to say anything original. I am putting no one at risk who isn't willing to take the exact same risks. Lock yourself inside if you refuse to. We will all celebrate with glee for an extra reason.

B) You claim to have me on ignore (the fact is mutual) yet you feel the need to reply to my post that has nothing to do with you. Please resist the urge to interact with me. It's bad enough that this forum lets you post here. I don't want to have to see it in my alerts regularly.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I'm sorry, but lockdowns hurting your feelings is not a good enough reason to put others at risk.

A) Nothing about what I said is related to my feelings. "Lockdowns" are not even in the  present Overton Window of American discourse for good reason and as such I haven't even discussed them. You've simply taken a common retort and said it in response to something that doesn't apply at all because you don't have the capacity to say anything original. I am putting no one at risk who isn't willing to take the exact same risks. Lock yourself inside if you refuse to. We will all celebrate with glee for an extra reason.

B) You claim to have me on ignore (the fact is mutual) yet you feel the need to reply to my post that has nothing to do with you. Please resist the urge to interact with me. It's bad enough that this forum lets you post here. I don't want to have to see it in my alerts regularly.

Actually, the opposite is true, people who are going to go around being anti-lockdown should be banned from this forum until this pandemic is over, and it's not just you, it's a bunch of other people, and frankly it literally is just about your feelings, there is no way that this pandemic will end without lockdowns, just look at what is happening now in all of those Republican states that opened up early,

You mean literally just the Dakotas? Because every other Midwestern state including Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Montana as well as Iowa, Indiana, Wyoming, and Nebraska had the same death rate last week regardless of who is governor. It's called winter in the Plains states.  That's where the cold starts. The pattern has limited correlation with party and complete correlation with weather. Even the Dakotas are more easily explained by the location of their cities and weathers compares to other neighbors.

edit: And I was looking at this a bit more. The biggest indictment of all should be that New Mexico, one of the 3-5 strictest states which is not even in the current geographical region being impacted, is third in case rate over the last seven days. That is an embarrassing fact to have to own up to!