That's what worries me, along with the hunting opener next weekend. I've seen several posts and memes going around Facebook in the last few days indicating ideas like "you don't know how much time you have left with your loved ones, so don't sacrifice your holidays with them". It makes me want to slap those people upside the head. I mean, I get that family time and tradition is important, but if there was one time where it's prudent to break with tradition, this is the year to do it. We're doing a 5-person Thanksgiving and there are 4 that live in my house, but I can't quite get past how anyone thinks that 9-10 months in, we are going to a get corner on this with isolation and masks. No public official can come out and say this, but it is over and we lost. The US can't stop it. It's all crisis management now until we have drugs. Arguing over how effective lockdowns/masks/distancing are, are moot points by now. Even if masks were 100% effective and isolation is 100% effective (it is) it's not going to happen. The nature of exponential spread is such that a lot of people following along and a lot of people not following along just doesn't really make a difference. Even if a person does everything right, for many people the necessities of everyday living will force them to cross paths with people who aren't, or at least another person who came across a person who wasn't. It's also a virus. Sometimes you just get sick, and it's not because you did some terrible thing. I just feel like there's been so little acknowledgment of the reality that lots of things are beyond our control, and people are always going to make exceptions for themselves that they don't grant other people. I.e., "no should be seeing movie right now, but I'll just go this one time." We're animals and we spread viruses. It's happened throughout history. I know the rebuttal to this is that other countries handled it better, but that time has passed. We had to do that in January with some semblance of unity. and cohesion and it didn't happen. The other factor that has been mystifyingly under-reported is just how ridiculously unhealthy the US population is. I'll never believe that wasn't the single biggest factor that made it so devastating here. The fear is that it can get worse than it is right now. I don't think anyone is under any illusions that it's going to go away if we all start behaving responsibly. If everyone can do their part to keep it at bay as best they can that will do a lot to alleviate strain on the healthcare system.