During this pandemic we are looking for plans to handle Thanksgiving this year. As much as we’re doing very well trying to stop this outbreak, here are some of our plans for to have a socially distant Thanksgiving.

We could have our own family Thanksgiving in our home dining room. For example, in a house and home with a family of four will all eat in their dining room instead of at their grandparents’ house. This is what my family does like everyone else in the world. Then after that, we could even visit my grandmother’s just to greet them all a Happy Thanksgiving, and just to blow a kiss instead of regular kissing. Then I don’t know what we should do next. In our quality family time, we usually just play and have fun with some of my younger cousins. I miss that old Thanksgiving tradition.

The Thanksgiving Day Parade will still be held in New York City courtesy of Macy’s. Maybe it will be a socially distant version, with no crowds, no people watching the parade, just what’s coming along the road, props and parade participants six feet apart, but it will all be live streaming, security cameras everywhere instead of anticipating visitors, or maybe less people. But speaking of less people, the non-socially distant version which was like years ago (Example: 2017) had about approximately 700,000 people, but this year, it’s going to be just approximately 800 people but recorded on security cameras traveled by other people who are watching on their laptop when there’s a Zoom link to the occasion, or Google Meet, I don’t know what it would be like, or both. Many people not in New York City can still watch it on television, maybe on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.

As long as this traditional Thanksgiving holiday lasts for 400 years since 1620 and beyond, those were all the plans for having a socially distant quadricentennial Thanksgiving feast, plus Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade NYC No. 100, the centennial parade we’ve had since 1920.

Maybe next year when COVID has been gone, maybe the next version will not be like socially distant. I can’t wait for the day we stop social distancing and wearing our face masks as the COVID is about to vanish in the future, so that the different schedule we’re still having could be turned into a regular schedule as I hoped what the 2020s would be like.