Yes, Virginia. Yes they are.
From scenes at packed airports to the much more intimate specter of Ben's father hosting his his business-as-usual Thanksgiving family brunch, I cannot comprehend why people are insisting on gathering today as if everything is normal. As if the number of cases of COVID aren't already going through the roof, I fully expect a HUGE spike in January.
I mean seriously, what are they thinking? Are they so selfish and concerned with tradition and their supposed "rights," they're willing to put Aunt Zelda on a ventilator in 8 weeks? Will this truly be the threat my mother used to hang over my head when I was living out-of-state, "This may be the last Thanksgiving you see your grandparents alive, so you better damn well be here."
BTW, Ben and I both politely refused his dad's (last-minute, but that's another story altogether) invitation.