During the myriad talk show rounds being made by multiple folks in American politics, Dr. Antony Fauci was once again called upon to deliver the bad news.
On Face The Nation, the face of COVID panic was asked if Americans would be able to gather for Christmas. My colleague Nick Arama covered his response. Here is what the doctor ordered:
“It’s just too soon to tell. We just gotta concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down, and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time. Let’s focus like a laser on continuing to get those cases down.
And we can do it by people getting vaccinated and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate, to get people boosters, because we know they can help greatly in diminishing infection and in diminishing advanced disease, the kinds of data that are now accumulating in real time.”
And you know what? Fauci is absolutely correct here. It is far too early to tell whether or not we are going to be able to gather for Christmas. Why? Because it’s the beginning of October, and we still have two holidays to celebrate with friends and family before we get there.
I have long been opposed to the idea of Christmas even being mentioned this early, primarily because it keeps trying to usurp the glorious day that is Thanksgiving. Santa Claus is proof that imperialism is still alive and kicking, and he keeps trying to take over the fall months after spending hundreds of years dominating the winter. We must stand together and put a stop to it.