My husband's family lives across the country and we never have celebrated holidays with them, so Covid has not made a difference. They just are not a "Holiday" family so it's all good. My family, on the other hand, all lives within 40 miles of each other and Thanksgiving and Christmas are really big gatherings of 20-25 people. I started dropping hints back in early September that I doubted my husband and I would attend Thanksgiving because I thought the virus situation would be out of control by mid-November. No one in the family agreed with me and I immediately faced a huge backlash. I dug in my heels and refused to budge, but they all insisted that they were going to gather "no matter what the government says." So here we are... a week from the holiday... and the county has outlawed gatherings of 10 or more. One immediate family member has just been released from the hospital because he had Covid complications. His wife is also sick but has not got her test results back. They have two children, one around 16 and one around 28- she has two small kids. So that is 6 people living in that house who most likely are Covid-positive. And they are all coming to Thanksgiving dinner because they will "feel fine" by then., and they will not be told what to do by the government, after all! Arrrgghhh!!! So very glad I am skipping it, but my 78-year old diabetic mother is still thinking about going. I'm terrified for her, but she is stubborn.