God, do I feel up to watching the live stream for tonight's announcement? I'm not sure. Maybe if they spend at least 50% less time on talking up Minnesotan virtues before giving the facts.
Okay, I'll watch it, but while playing Hades. I can pause whenever it's important.
Ah, they're using the term "paused" for a bunch of things that need to be, uh, not done to reduce the number of people dying. So there's that.
No in-person dining, gyms, sports, theaters. Personal gatherings, parties, receptions. Inside and outside.
Still open: schools, retail, take-out. Haircuts and child care and places of worship.
"Get outside! Walking in the woods, we encourage you to do that, but don't do it with other families."
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I've been saying this in various replies, but might as well stop repeating and put it here, for my tiny audience of (let me check) 1086 people, of which I assume about 500 are bots.
So, Thanksgiving last year. In the ER.
I woke up with abdominal pain. Thought it was unexpectedly untimely cramps, but it was relentless and horrible. I canceled plans to meet up with friends. Could barely take the dog to the patio. Friends online convinced me to go to the ER. (I took a rideshare.)
The ER was, unexpectedly, nearly empty. Staff had me checked in at the desk (with a handy vomit bag, which I had to use before finishing my paperwork) within five minutes, in a bed within ten. They said it's like that; Thanksgiving is always either empty or overwhelmed.
Have reached the point of this pandemic where I have serious ethical qualms about going home for winter break, despite quarantine & test & masks & everything else I can think of to make it safer. Hell.
Okay. More or less canceled Christmas.
I mean, I am not canceling my flights until the last minute just in case SOMETHING somehow makes this safe, but the plan is now to not go home for winter break at all.
I'm not even angry at people being irresponsible individually. This kind of thing only works if the government not only regulates properly, but has earned enough trust among citizens to get the buy-in.