As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, the world watches with dread and disbelief

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Foreign observers are watching with trepidation — and at times disbelief — as coronavirus cases surge across the United States, and scores of Americans are choosing to follow through with plans to visit family and friends for this week’s Thanksgiving holiday anyway.

It’s been a grueling year. Many have gone months without seeing their loved ones. Thanksgiving travel is down and many families are opting against their usual festivities. But as the pandemic drags on, with shorter days and chillier weather forcing more people indoors, the social isolation is becoming more difficult to bear.

Decisions over whether to gather have turned divisive, as experts warn that Thanksgiving includes the key ingredients — a shared, indoor meal and inter-household mixing — that could spark an even worse surge in cases in the coming weeks.

It’s a scenario that officials in other countries are trying to avert ahead of other upcoming holidays, such as Christmas and New Year’s.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-americans-prepare-to-gather-for-thanksgiving-the-world-watches-with-dread-and-disbelief/ar-BB1bmsjL?li=BBnb7Kz

[cwydro]

1. This is going to be very bad by Christmas.

By January, I just hate to think where we’ll be.

[nitpicker]

2. Coffins waiting to go into the ground until the soil stops freezing

Absent mass grave trenches.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. On the up side, there's a lot of job growth potential

in grave digging and mortuary attendant.

Do I need the sarcasm thingie?

[lunatica]

5. You don't need the sarcasm thingy because you're

being prophetic.

[misanthrope]

4. Gives a whole new meaning to Black Friday

Build a culture around selfishness and this is what you get.

[lunatica]

6. You might have a good point there

There seems to be very little resistance to the urge for instant gratification that this country lives by.

There must be some socio-psychological thing going on.

[0rganism]

7. 500000 Americans dead from COVID-19 by Jan. 20, calling it now

that's 1 doubling in 2 months, seems plausible given our uncomfortably high levels of self-destructive stupidity

[Skittles]

8. there are a lot of selfish people in America

I counseled a coworker last night whose mum is putting the guilt trip on her for declining to go to a family gathering.....it is ridiculous.....I advised her to tell her mum to RESPECT HER DECISION, END OF STORY.

[roamer65]

9. Yes there are.

Selfish and manipulative.

[Skittles]

10. this coworker has asthma, and her husband has a heart condition

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and her mum is 80! good gawd