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The Life-or-Death Dilemma of Thanksgiving 2020
Are you willing to risk it all for family time during a pandemic?
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In mid-October, Japanese researchers released an animation that used a supercomputer to examine how particles spread when sitting at a table — a terrifying but informative way to learn of just how risky it is to reach over for cornbread dressing during a pandemic.
(And before anyone starts, yes, it’s still dressing, not stuffing. It will always be this way because that is the correct way.)
The visual, however, indirectly confirms my fears that America is really fucked this holiday season. Joe Biden may be the president-elect, but he, vice president-elect (Howard University’s own) Kamala Harris, and the rest of us still have to contend with the current administration’s “let them die” approach to the medical crisis. That approach has yielded significant, historic levels of loss of life that’s only growing.
