Welcome to Democracy Isham Toray.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And there's a lot of fires going on in the world that I want to talk about,

but I think I am sad and that I am wrapping my head around.

It really does not make any sense to do our traditional normal Thanksgiving family family gathering which would be my wife my son and daughter

and i going to see my sister her husband his son and my mom and i just see so many messages saying, like, don't do your normal Thanksgiving.

Small groups, indoors, bad news.

Those small informal indoor gatherings are helping to spread the disease and you can't do it.

It's certainly not some multi-hour indoor gathering.

Can't do it.

I mean, you can't do it.

I recommend that people don't do it.

I will tell folks that I just came off of a birthday trip that I took with four other people.

All of us had COVID tests before we left.

And now I will be getting ready to take two more COVID tests before I actually go home to only have

Thanksgiving with my mom and my dad. Our normal Thanksgiving like everybody else is includes

uncles and aunts and cousins and all of these things and we're not doing it because I don't

think that it's safe. And when you talk to these doctors, which I had the pleasure of talking to on my other

show, they explained scientifically what is happening with the COVID actual virus,

which is that in the wintertime, it hardens and becomes like impenetrable.

In the summertime, they explained it as being more like a jelly bean, easily kind of like, you know, squashed, not as penetrable.

This is like the whole air is filled with marbles, right?

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