RE: What to Do About Christmas,
I went to Walmart this morning and they had a lady at the front that asked me if I wanted a mask as I was entering. I politely declined but then noticed that about half of the customers were wearing masks. So I guess it is "here we go again".
A year ago on Dec 20, with no vaccine, AZ reported 5366 new cases. Today on Dec 20, 2021, AZ reported 2176 or almost 60% fewer. People in the hospital today with covid are at 2496, compared with 3899 a year ago or 36% less. In June we had much better numbers but likely are not headed for a repeat of the crisis of last Dec/Jan.
We also are not NY which is experiencing record new cases despite all the "mitigation" they have done. Because the media are concentrated in NY, I think the nation is getting a slanted view from NY's regional crisis and it is hard to sift thru their politics and personal opinion to decide what to do for our Christmas in AZ.
Anyway, our decision is to go ahead with our Christmas gathering. AZ is not NY (fortunately) and I think people need to each assess who they are interacting with and what they are going to do at Christmas and make their own decision. We are going to be careful but also enjoy our 1st gathering in 2 years. I think Biden is giving a teleprompter speech Tuesday night to scare all of us but the die is cast for us as they say.