Coronavirus (non political)

My family decided to skip Thanksgiving this year and at this rate it's hard to imagine getting together for Christmas. Sad but it's just reality right now. Anybody else going the same route for the holidays?

Thanksgiving just immediate family but no traveling or driving around seeing family afterwards this time.

But the big blow to me is my dads side of family canceled the Christmas Eve get together we always done since the 70s...it’s usually around 50 of dad side of family...bring a plate, bring drinks (moonshine shows up sometimes) and gift exchange between kids. That’s been held first at my grandparents house and since they have past, my eldest aunt house ever Christmas Eve starting at 530pm. Some walk over for church choir service which starts at 6:05 and goes to 7 at Baptist church across the street.

This hurts the most.

Thanksgiving just immediate family but no traveling or driving around seeing family afterwards this time.

But the big blow to me is my dads side of family canceled the Christmas Eve get together we always done since the 70s...it’s usually around 50 of dad side of family...bring a plate, bring drinks (moonshine shows up sometimes) and gift exchange between kids. That’s been held first at my grandparents house and since they have past, my eldest aunt house ever Christmas Eve starting at 530pm. Some walk over for church choir service which starts at 6:05 and goes to 7 at Baptist church across the street.

This hurts the most.

That sucks man, I am sorry.

That sucks man, I am sorry.

U know it’s for the best.

in lieu of it...all the male cousins going to get steaks at Texas Roadhouse early December and catch up over over tall pours.

Gotta adapt in these times

U know it’s for the best.

in lieu of it...all the male cousins going to get steaks at Texas Roadhouse early December and catch up over over tall pours.

Gotta adapt in these times

Go to Longhorn.

Texas Grizzlehouse is the worst.

U know it’s for the best.

in lieu of it...all the male cousins going to get steaks at Texas Roadhouse early December and catch up over over tall pours.

Gotta adapt in these times

Better than nothing I suppose.

My family usually does a get-together with our extended family for Xmas or Thanksgiving, we cancelled Thanksgiving this year so it will just be immediate family for now, but I'm probably gonna do an early Xmas weekend with the siblings in a couple weeks since we don't want to do a big Xmas.

We had managed a small get together about a month ago so for the Holidays anyway we will be just us . Still doing Turkey for Thanksgiving but will do a standing rib roast for Christmas.

I've had grandma's lasagna with my dads side of the family the 1st 36 Christmas Eve's of my life. I hope to make it 37. Losing a lifetime tradition is not the end of the world but it's depressing nonetheless. Out of my control though. Just gotta wait and see how it goes.

We are doing the outside thing and right now they are calling for some rain. We have reduced it down to immediate family so that will help. We have two fire pits and I'm taking a TV so we can watch the game. Not sure what we will do for Christmas.

280,210 total US deaths to date

2,833 new US deaths yesterday. Thats a daily record that my be broken many times going forward with us possibly hitting near 4k deaths a day.

203,737 new cases yesterday. (1.39% death rate = 2833/203737)

Texas, illinois, Ohio,Kansas, indiana, california, south dakota are just getting hammered right now. maryland had 42 new deaths yesterday.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/


We all need N95 masks. Make producing them a national priority and give them to each household.

So i posted this question in the "political" side of this thread, but I really think it is a non political question:

How good are the chances that the FDA approve either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines this month? I saw that UK authorized it yesterday, and Canada may approve it by the weekend.

Is the expectation in the USA that the FDA does in fact greenlight them? The vaccines are being shipped everywhere now to the staging centers, etc., but there seems to be no contingency plan for if they do not approve them.

What do you all think here?