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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're asking highly selfish people if they're going to party and then self isolate? The answer is no, no they are not. [/quote]

So your take is it's highly selfish to gather and celebrate for holidays and then carry on with our lives afterward.  You mean the behavior that humanity has been engaging in since the dawn of time.

Community and connection are canceled folks.  The way to a long and healthy life is to avoid all the people.  Bonus points for spending the holidays with as few people as possible and then having a job that allows you to sit at home alone afterward too.  This is evidence-based advice.
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No one has suggested avoiding socialization. The article doesn't say that, nor have prior posters mentioned isolating or avoiding holiday gatherings. The idea is that we might want to be mindful of others following high-risk activities, especially if we will be around vulnerable people in the week following those high-risk activities.  [/quote]

Why are holiday gatherings considered "high risk" activities, but other things we do every day, that may involve being in contact with even more people, are not?  My kids are in class with 20+ kids and see even more in the lunch room, recess, and aftercare.  My spouse works in person every day and takes the metro.  We attend church and went to see a play last week.  None of this makes sense anymore.

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Those are considered high risk with the exception of recess.  The powers that be don’t want to classify schools, offices, metro  as high risk bc then they would actually have to do something about it like clean the air.  Those are all essential activities so more needs to be done to make safer for all [/quote]

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