OK @nychealth, cc: @marklevine: We are not going to beat the holiday Covid scourge with this testing regime. A story: 1/many On Monday, having traveled out of state, I went for a test. On 116th and ACP, there was an amazing pop-up place that did rapid plus PCR with the same swab. They were lovely. Got my rapid (negative) and then my PCR (also negative). Yay! 2/many

So I did it! I spent my first Thanksgiving in my whole life alone (with Sadie of course). A thread. 1/ I told @NoraWD not to come home, and she agreed. I got invitations from cousins on both sides of my family, but in the end, as the epidemiologists explain, we were too many “households.” 2/

1) So: Many people know I am close friends with @JoyAnnReid. Few of you know I was the first person to publish her, roughly 18 years ago. We didn't meet for at least a dozen years. 2) At Salon, I kept track of her work and read her blog, "The Reid Report," after that. In 2008, when we started our blogging platform "Open Salon," we asked our favorite contributors who had blogs to cross post with us. Joy did so and was immediately a huge hit.