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How to NOT KILL GRANDMA at Thanksgiving this year

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If I were king.#Christmas If I were king.#Christmas
Grateful for the way these turkeys turned out. # Grateful for the way these turkeys turned out. #GobbleGobble
Happy Thanksgiving, ya Turkeys! 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving, ya Turkeys! 🦃
Powerful, isn't it? Sometimes in medicine, it can Powerful, isn't it? Sometimes in medicine, it can feel that way. Like you're drowning, an uphill climb to say the least. Especially in this seemingly never ending pandemic. Covid cases now on the rise, hospitals filling up again, despite known ways to prevent this disease that we aren't doing enough. The refusal of so many to do their part only adds to the burden and exhaustion of this marathonous battle.Did I just create the word marathonous? Perfect fit.A battle in which hundreds of doctors and nurses have died from the very disease we showed up to treat, in a system that does bare more than the minimum to support our mission.There is good news. Numerous vaccines bring true hope for an end. There will come a time when we will be back to worrying only about a surge from the flu, and heart attacks and appendixes. And when the dust clears after this war is over, for those who fought and sacrificed, they will have something that can never be taken away. When it mattered, you showed up and did your part. Hero.Early on, when it wasn't clear how risky it was to work on the front line, I thought about my own death. I imagined dodging this draft, and how it would feel later, to have quit and sat out--and to have done so precisely when I was most needed. Pure cowardice. What an awful feeling to live with for the rest of your life.No judgement on those who are not fit for this battle. If I had cancer and was on chemo, I'd have no shame to sit this out. But I've also watched some younger and healthies give up their shifts, a convenient time for a sabbatical. Losers, let's call it what it is."You're not thinking right," a colleague told me, when I went to volunteer in New York. What if I got Covid and died from it, running to the front lines to help other people. I can't think of a better way to go. We're all going to die. Maybe I've got 40 or 50 years left, if I'm lucky. Maybe only 10. But it became clear to me, that dying on that field of battle, not one where I'm killing people, but exactly the opposite, in the arena where people are literally dying to save other lives. Yes, that is glory, my friend.
Gone bird huntin with dad, cuz and the dogs. Back Gone bird huntin with dad, cuz and the dogs. Back in a few.#Movember #SouthDakota #PheasantHunting
It's blunt and almost offensive, but I'm serious-- It's blunt and almost offensive, but I'm serious--we're going to lose some family members this year because they get COVID at holiday gatherings.Bad setup. Indoor dining, without masks or distancing.Young people (many whom are trying to live their lives with as little pandemic disruption as possible including traveling) now across the table from our elderly and sick.We're going to lose lots of grannys.After a month of decreased cases, COVID again hitting record numbers in many places across the US, and the world.Looking ahead, I'm worried about Thanksgiving, and simply have to say something to you about it.⠀Now before I get into the specifics of how to best stay safe over holiday gatherings, I do want to acknowledge this--our elderly, who are often lonely to begin with, are even more isolated during Covid, and not getting together with them only makes it worse.Visit the lonely.How can we do that safely?How can we still come together during the holidays in a safe way?That's the question.⠀To be 100% safe, there's really only 2 ways: don't do it, or do a strict 14 day quarantine beforehand.If you're getting together with granny or someone who is sick (with cancer for example), that's the only way to be sure Covid won't go around and eliminate risk. For many, this is the right thing to do.⠀Some things that lower the risk (but it's not zero) including getting Covid tested a couple days before the dinner.Would be helpful to know you're negative (the test isn't 100%). If you're going to get together and it's a small group, outside, at a distance and with masks, then that's also low risk.Some may consider this.But for most in the US, it's too cold and that's just not realistic to keep distance when we are used to being close at the holiday dinner table.⠀Let's talk about the high risk stuff that I really want you to think about. Especially the young people (high school and college age at school) and young 20s-30s who are traveling and running around (at times, irresponsibly) like it's not a pandemic. It's not unreasonable to have them sit this holiday out, too high risk. Dead Grannys. Dead Grampies. No way Jose. Next year. ••• More in comments.
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