Anna Lee Mraz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
By official orders of 10 counties in the San Francisco Bay Area we must remain indoors and private meetings of any size are prohibited. It means that this Christmas we cannot go to grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins, or to close friends.
That does not mean that we are alone, and it is okay if Christmas is not celebrated this December 24 and 25, because we must give priority to personal care and extreme precautions.
There are ways to party from a distance. You can make a video call, or you can make a video and send it lovingly to all your family members and acquaintances; you can have a Christmas in the car and drop off packages to your loved ones.
You can enjoy the live programs that will be made online this holiday, starting with the Christmas Festival of Casa Círculo Cultural on Saturday December 19, 2020 by Facebook live: @circulocultural.rwc
As cases of coronavirus in the bay continue to rise and, worse, increase dramatically, we must think ahead about how we will handle the big holidays like Christmas and Lunar New Year, which researchers are warning could become super spread events.
According to Julia Marcus, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass., in an interview with Nature, one of the most respected journals on science, she said:
"We are already at a high level of community outreach, and we are about to see many people traveling and meeting indoors. It's hard to see how these meetings are going to end well.
It's time to get even more creative. It's better not to party together today, to wait until it's safe when the vaccine is in everyone's hands and we've created herd immunity. This Christmas better be virtual so we can continue to celebrate for many more years.
