After months of locking all the old folks in nursing homes to die and shutting down all the bars and synagogues in the Empire State, the totally not anti-Semitic Andrew Cuomo aimed his fire on a new target: Thanksgiving. For weeks, the governor has waged war on the upcoming holiday, forbidding indoor gatherings of more than 10 people and warning New Yorkers to cancel Thanksgiving festivities altogether.
“My personal advice is you don’t have a family gathering, even for Thanksgiving,” Cuomo pontificated late last month. “My personal advice is the best way to say, ‘I love you’ this Thanksgiving, the best way to say, ‘I’m thankful for you’ is to say, ‘I love you so much, I’m so thankful for you that I don’t want to endanger you, and I don’t want to endanger our family, and I don’t want to endanger our friends, so we’ll celebrate virtually.'”
Then, Cuomo confessed today that not only will he be celebrating Thanksgiving, but he’ll be doing it with octogenarian mother in tow. Lovely.
.@NYGovCuomo is having his 89-year old mother and two daughters to Albany for Thanksgiving.
“The story is, my mom is going to come up and two of my girls. But the plans change.”
He has spent the better half of two weeks telling New Yorkers to stay home for the holiday.
— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) November 23, 2020
So after killing everyone else’s grandmas through his disastrous nursing home order, Cuomo is keen to kill his own.
In all seriousness, Cuomo’s confession reveals not the gross hypocrisy of a tyrant but also the reason why the absolutist rules of COVIDiots are so dangerous.
The attempt to cancel Thanksgiving might be the most reckless manifestation of coronavirus absolutism. Rather than recognize that human nature kicks in and you’d be better off instructing people how to mitigate risk, our tyrannical leaders have browbeaten us from the luxury of their fully staffed governors’ mansions.
Smart Thanksgiving advice would look something like this: If you have to travel, try to drive with members of your household instead of flying. If weather permits, have your Thanksgiving outside, and if it doesn’t, try to leave windows open and space out seating as much as possible. Encourage people to evaluate the risk of their own household, and if those with coronavirus risks or those living with the at-risk, consider whether you should wear a mask or stay home entirely. Encourage everyone attending to self-quarantine with their households for the fortnight before or get tested just before festivities.
Maybe after weighing all of these options, you may independently decide to forgo a traditional Thanksgiving, as I am doing with a heavy heart. Visiting my family would require a six-hour flight during the busiest weekend of the year, and although my contacts at home in Washington, D.C., have been rather limited, I can’t justify getting on an unusually packed plane of people eating and drinking to visit a home with multiple people at risk of coronavirus complications.
But it’s my decision, and it was made by my own ability to reason instead of because of what the hypocritical Emperor Cuomo told me to do.
