Hey, this is Dr. Chris. You're listening to some of my favorite guests from this year.

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guest, Dr. James Q Simmons. Welcome back to the show. Oh, thank you, Chris. Good to see you again.

Yeah, happy holidays. We are squarely in the holidays, right? It did like prep up on us like that so fast.

So let's talk about it.

Holiday travel.

Is it safe? What should people think about?

I'm a hardliner.

I'm telling everyone, just stay home, please.

What are your thoughts as a medical professional?

Oh, so I'm a hardliner, but also a realist.

So my official advice is, y'all should not have done Thanksgiving.

I know you travel for Thanksgiving.

I know you went inside people's houses.

I know you didn't wear your masks.

And now we're still seeing numbers, you know, go crazy in certain parts of the country.

So I'm sticking to that.

I really feel like we all have to be okay with the holidays, not being okay with us, not being the way that we like them.

I don't like any non-essential travel. I don't like any non-essential gatherings, period in certain parts of the country, but definitely not indoors. And for most of the country, now that it's, you know, we're squarely into the holidays and it's cold,

it's really difficult to have gatherings outside.

That being said, Chris, I'm also a realist.

I know that people are going to do this, and we have very clear evidence that people are doing this. And so there are some

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