Thanksgiving is a holiday entirely about getting together with family and friends, sharing food and drink and fond remembrances. With Blaine County’s COVID-19 transmission risk at the “critical” designation and cases and hospitalizations on the rise throughout the state, many local celebrations are certain to take on a different look and feel this year.
For those planning Thanksgiving festivities, the federal Centers for Disease Control has several recommendations for safe proceedings, beginning with the constant guidelines urging citizens to wear face coverings while around others outside your own household, maintaining six feet of physical distance from others, and washing your hands thoroughly and frequently.
If attending an indoor Thanksgiving celebration at a household other than your own, the CDC recommends the following precautions:
- Bring your own food, drinks, plates, cups, and utensils.
- Wear a mask, and safely store your mask while eating and drinking.
- Avoid going in and out of the areas where food is being prepared or handled, such as in the kitchen.
- Use single-use options, like salad dressing and condiment packets, and disposable items like food containers, plates, and utensils.
If you’re hosting a Thanksgiving gathering with people from other households, the CDC makes the following recommendations:
- Have a small outdoor meal with family and friends who live in your community.
- Limit the number of guests.
- Have conversations with guests ahead of time to set expectations for celebrating together.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces and items between use.
- If you’re celebrating indoors, make sure to open windows.
- Limit the number of people in food preparation areas.
- Have guests bring their own food and drink.
- If you’re sharing food, have one person serve food and use single-use options, like plastic utensils.
The CDC stresses that staying home is “the best way to protect yourself and others.” But, for those with plans to travel, health officials suggest getting a flu shot prior to the trip, social distancing with anyone who is not in your household, always wearing a mask while in public settings and on public transportation, bringing extra masks and hand sanitizer, and checking travel restriction and quarantine requirements for your home area and your destination.
Health officials also urge Americans to plan alternative approaches to celebrating the holiday, even if they are less orthodox. Consider hosting a virtual meal, video chatting with family and friends; explore options for syncing up televised sporting events, favorite movies or parades to watch together while in separate locations; or, share recipes and cooking techniques with each other.
All these recommendations and more can be found online at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksgiving.html.
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Redfield said if Americans wore face masks for several weeks, "we would bring this pandemic under control," because there is scientific evidence they work and they are our "best defense."
"I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine, because it may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me," Redfield said. "This face mask will."
Several experts contacted by CBS News agree with that assessment: Since vaccines do not guarantee an immune response, masks may be more effective at preventing COVID-19.
These are all suggestions from trumps cdc , trump is still 100% in control of the virus response , Trump failed to create a national plan to stop covid19, instead the president hosted as many mass infection event rallies prior to November 3 elections , people are dying by the thousands now daily because bunker boy trump wants to hide out at his golf course resorts instead of stopping the virus , he is encouraged in the virus to spread to everyone because his whole family got it ,now he thinks we should all have it , that is why he appointed Scott atlas to the head of the Covid response team , Scott atlas is the big pusher of herd immunity (herd stupidity )
CDC forgot their most important directive for celebrating Thanksgiving: draw the blinds, shut the door, run to the corner, assume the fetal position and wait until you get the "all clear" from us.
CDC said this morning that children are safest when in school. But all the schools are closing because the kids are testing positive.
Many schools that I know of closed because of the number of teachers testing positive and not enough substitutes .
Of course the school board of the second largest school district in South Dakota passed a measure that an asymptotic teacher could still teach .... and now the whole district went from fully in person to all online.
Sad misinformation, The safest place to be is at home away from other COVID-19 positive people, it’s all about politics, governor little decided the kids of Idaho were not as important as politics put our kids in danger , Idaho kids are not sacrificial lambs governor little, governor Brown in Oregon a Democrat did not start school for the kids because she knew it was dangerous, governor little knew it was dangerous but still put kids back into school because Trump politics control Mr. little
Everyone please call Mr. little and tell him that you want a state wide mask ordinance because his outreach program is not helping anyone people , people in Idaho do not wanna wear a mask because they do not believe in the virus and those people are also all Trumper‘s , sad a mask is a political issue, please wear a mask it’s the American thing to do 😷😷😷 call Idaho governor little and you tell him we need a state wide mask mandate Office of the Governor
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Chuck, your information is incorrect. In NY City which just closed the schools because the general population has an infection rate of slightly over 3.0% the infection rate in school children is only 0.29%. The schools were closed because the adult population exceeded the pre-established protocol limit. This one size fits all may be bad policy, but it's not the children's infection rate that caused the school closures.
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