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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3745012, member: 6927"] I feel this is worth a response to because of its import. The thing that makes the prospect of typical Thanksgiving gatherings — multiplied across a population of roughly 300 million — especially concerning to public health experts is precisely the fact that they very often bring together people who, though perhaps related by blood or marriage, don't actually live together or regularly spend time together. No one is saying people shouldn't be with the people that we're already with everyday. A relative's recent funeral (which I did not attend) became a superspreader event from which, at latest count, 18 people ended up testing positive. Not to sound callous, but subtract the casket and add a turkey and you've got a gathering that could be equally, or even more, conducive to contagion. [/QUOTE]