Will Covid-19 cancel the holidays?
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:52.2 | Did you know choosing the train over your car can cook your carbon footprint by up to two thirds? |
| 0:58.2 | So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, |
| 1:05.4 | one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time. One train journey at a time can help |
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| 1:22.3 | Halloween is on a Saturday this year. It's two Saturdays away from today. Plus it's going to be a full |
| 1:32.2 | moon and the second full moon of the month, which makes it an extra special blue moon for all the |
| 1:38.8 | Halloween people out there. This was going to be a good one then came the pandemic. But as far as I |
| 1:43.3 | can tell, it hasn't stopped people from decorating. It certainly hasn't stopped the grocery stores |
| 1:48.3 | from selling candy. I've even seen videos of people building like these little candy shoots |
| 1:52.9 | to deliver candy from a distance from like the front door down to the sidewalk. The question is |
| 1:58.8 | will it be safe to go out there on the 31st and trick-or-treat? And after that, how about Thanksgiving |
| 2:05.9 | and Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanza and New Year's? This felt like a good time to ask if the holidays |
| 2:12.2 | are on or if we have to cancel them too. I asked Dr. Aaron Carroll. He's a professor of pediatrics |
| 2:19.2 | at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Go Hoosiers. Dr. Carroll, are the holidays canceled |
| 2:26.5 | this year? Well, they shouldn't be. You know, certainly I can imagine a scenario where things |
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