Is Thanksgiving cancelled?

It will be, because all of a sudden the Deplorables insist that the new POTUS, Joe Biden, is handling Covid-19 very badly.

Turkeys are having a great year.

Thanksgiving may be canceled, but no one is canceling my birthday!

I sure hope so.

Thanksgiving with family is HELL.

One thing COVID Is making me hopeful about: HOLIDAYS AT HOME 2020~ NO VISITORS!

R3, do you celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving (whenever it falls) or do you celebrate it on the actual month/day?

It'd be kind of cool to track the holiday - like Easter - and base it on the festival calendar and not the Gregorian calendar.

Also, R4, I'm sad for you that you don't have visitors you want to be with on holidays.

I celebrate on the actual day in November on which I was born R5. When I was a kid, it was a big deal and it was celebrated on Thanksgiving Day as well.

R5 don't feel sad for me, I look forward to the idea. I will have my family and pets at home, happy.

Shoney's won't let anything cancel Thanksgiving!

r1 Trump will still be president until January.

No. I'll be cooking a turkey breast, gravy, potatoes, and fresh cranberry sauce...and eating all of it alone...as usual.

R10. That sounds delightful, really. I do have a long-time partner, so will cook/help cook at least for two (and the dogs get a taste of fresh turkey). Glad not to be dining with relatives. I'd be fine eating alone though. I would prepare much less.

Thanksgiving is like Nazis celebrating the holocaust!

I'm fine. I get stuck with the shitty leftovers and they stink up the fridge anyway. We're just going to order in

It was always a second string holiday for us. It seems like it's been made more importanat than it needs to be.

Covid is the perfect excuse this year to blow all that shit OFF . Every goddamn year Im forced to participate by my mother and I hate every second of it. Not this year baby !

Better yet, will CHRISTMAS be cancelled?

if only.....

[quote]Better yet, will CHRISTMAS be cancelled?

I'm sure the Deplorables and Fox News are ramping up their "War On Christmas" rhetoric right now. "Joe Biden will CANCEL Christmas!!!"

FAT WHORES REMORSE!!

A said lot , you are

I have no intention of making a turkey thus year. Unfortunately we get a turkey from work every year. I’ll probably give it to a relative.

I hope to celebrate Thanksgiving with family, but i would be fine with missing Christmas. NYC waits until the last minute to cancel events these days, interested to see if they cancel Macys Parade, Rockefeller Tree Lighting, and the Ball Drop

no?

R20, it’s “sad lot” you sad lot.

[quote] [R1] Trump will still be president until January.

Not for the Deplorables. They'll start complaining about Biden the moment he won the election.

No Christmas for you!

For those who are so happy and relieved that they can spend the holiday at home alone.....uh...you can do that any year if that's what you want to do. Are you really that weak that you can't decline an invitation? You sound about as limp as some overcooked spaghetti that was left in the water because you were shamed into thinking you cannot strain spaghetti without being tacky.

Yes. Christmas too. New Years. And probably Election Day

Probably, unless Instacart can deliver my usual specialties from Trader Joe's. I'm not venturing over there, since so many of my fellow Arizonans are Covid+, maskless, and crazy.

It’s canceled because someone found problematic tweets by the turkey which it SHOULD have deleted years ago smdh.

Won'tsomebody, please, think of Halloween?

I wish!

R21, what kind of a job scores you a turkey each Thanksgiving? It sounds like a Depression thing!

Good point r31. Will there be trick or treaters at the door this year?

Oh I don’t think so. We quarantined with them and continue to see them all the time.

It’s okay. It’s oddly comforting to use the same place cards my late MIL made and do all the same chores assigned to us and let my BIL butcher the carving because it’s a man’s job.

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner is nothing exciting for me, I've been out of the U.S. for 17 or 18 of the last 20 of so Thanksgivings and never missed it in the least. One of my friends always plots a WASP family version of a Jewish 25 December: a big afternoon Chinese restaurant feast, a film at the cinema, and maybe a trip to some botanical gardens or some similar place. It sounds infinitely better than the array of unexciting to dreadful traditional Thanksgiving foods, and without the strange family brood, and the nervous expectations of take that sort of thing seriously.

I love Thanksgiving--just food and relaxation unlike so many other holidays that are loaded with huge expectations and inevitable disappointments. But it if has to end, c'est la vie. It was fun while it lasted.

R11 Before my mother died, I made Thanksgiving Dinner for my mom, and siblings. It was lovely. But even for a few people I love, it was a lot. My preference for Thanksgiving, is to either eat alone as I have been for the last few years, or to attend a gathering with friends.

My favorite Thanksgiving was one I spent in Alna & Boothbay Harbor Maine in 2007. I didn't cook anything, but helped my friend's mother with the meal. Then, said friend's stepfather & his friend (who interestingly, is a board game designer...random, but fascinating) invited me to the basement to toke a joint as an appetizer.

And it sounds maudlin, but I love Thanksgiving...gathering in a warm home, filled with light, and laughter, and great food, while shutting out the cold, dark weather. ...Which is why I stopped celebrating with family. 🤣

r29 Well, Trader Joe's doesn't allow Instacart shoppers, so I guess you're out of luck there.

According to my family, visitations of some sort might start as soon as later this month or September, albeit with isolation and testing involved. There's a person in the family that drives old folks to places so there's a particular care with that. Even the careful people I know are starting to get comfortable with backyard meals, so that's inevitable unless cases really spike. So I can see us having October-November outdoor gatherings at minimum, especially if we can have ways to keep the temperature up.

We don't really think about Halloween and whatever Christmas will be, it'll be. If it has to be apart, I'd hope to send a few gifts in the mail.

I really don't care what happens this year as long as we're all safe. Next year is my eventual agitation point, even as an introvert. However bad you think its now, imagine a 2021 where Trump wins (and Cons in Canada trigger an election that they win), Depression starts hitting, there's no great treatment for covid and definitely no vaccine, and sense of social structure is unraveling. Now step back and realize its not going to be as bad as that, but its going to get worse before it gets better.

R33, it’s a smallish, local company that still gives its employees a turkey every Thanksgiving.

Isn’t this done anymore? It was a tradition back in the day and it’s still done where I work.

The company buys 65-70 turkeys every year. 🤷🏻‍♀️