Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I write this on November 25th. What will Christmas be in the year of the virus? I don’t know.

The big media—network news and cable networks, the big newspapers—have botched everything this year, and botched everything badly and obviously. Can’t look there for any accurate predictions.

Fifty-one percent of the country is happy about the recent election. Fifty percent of the country thinks the election was fraught with fraud (that includes 30% of Democrats, so the fraud idea is not just on one side).

Can the optimism of 51% carry the holiday?

Online shopping dominates, so people may be buying retail. There could be a run on toilet paper again.

No hugging on Christmas Day. That isn’t allowed.

What are we to do? Who knows?

It is a holiday.

• Celebrate as much as you can.
• Help others as much as you can.
• If you can’t be with someone, call them and tell them you wish you could see them and hug them.
• Don’t let someone else ruin your holiday. Recall, they’ve botched everything this year.