Iowans making tough decisions to be away from family for Thanksgiving
IOWA, USA — Thanksgiving looked a lot different in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Americans of the risk of gathering as cases, deaths and hospitalizations skyrocketed over November.
After seeing these reports, the Maly family decided to forego their gatherings this year.
"It was kind of a relief that they made that decision that I didn't have to have any of those tough conversations and it's a bummer obviously," said John Maly, one of the siblings in the family.
Cousins, grandparents, siblings and grandchildren decided that it would be best for everyone's health.
However, John said it's been tough to not think of the "what ifs" of cancelling this gathering.
"It's just one year. My parents are old, this might be their last one. It probably isn't, they're relatively healthy, but you never know," he said.
"You don't want to take it for granted and just assume that everything will be back to normal next year and we'll do it next year because you just never know," he concluded.
Fortunately, technology allows folks to gather virtually for the holidays. Zoom even made it easier allowing families more time to chat.
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Like pretty much everything in 2020, Thanksgiving looks a lot different due to COVID-19.
Many are spending their first Thanksgiving alone or without loved ones. Families are turning video calls into the dinner table. Even the Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons are social distancing.
"I know the country has grown weary of the fight,” President-elect Joe Biden said in a Thanksgiving eve address urging unity. “We need to remember we’re at war with the virus, not with one another. Not with each other."
ress a day after the U.S. reported its deadliest day since May, with more than 2,000 new fatalities due to the virus. It could get worse: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday published a national ensemble forecast that predicts 294,000 to 321,000 coronavirus deaths by Dec. 19.
In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, public health officials said infections are skyrocketing, with approximately one out of every 145 people infected with the virus. That estimate was at 1 in 880 residents two months ago, according to the Los Angeles Times.
📈 Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 12.8 million cases and over 262,800 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The global totals: 60.7 million cases and 1.4 million deaths.
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‘We’re at War With the Virus, Not With Each Other,’ Biden Tells Nation
In a repudiation of President Trump’s divisiveness, President-elect Joe Biden urged Americans to take virus precautions and unify in the fight against the pandemic. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that he had pardoned Michael Flynn.
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Biden Calls for Unity in Thanksgiving Address
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. stressed the importance of unity and encouraged Americans to be careful with Thanksgiving celebrations this year to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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You know, looking back over our history, you see that it’s been in the most difficult circumstances that the soul of our nation has been forged. And now we find ourselves again facing a long, hard winter. We’ve fought nearly a yearlong battle with a virus that has devastated this nation. I know the country has grown weary of the fight. We need to remember, we’re at war with a virus, not with one another, not with each other. This year we’re asking Americans to forgo so many of the traditions that we’ve long made this holiday, that’s made it so special. For our family, for 40-such years, 40-some years, we’ve had a tradition of traveling over Thanksgiving, a tradition that we’ve kept every year save one: the year our son Beau died. But this year, we’ll be staying home. I know how hard it is to forgo family traditions, but it’s so very important. I give thanks now for you, for the trust you’ve placed in me. Together we’ll lift our voices in the coming months and years, and our song shall be of lives saved, breaches repaired, a nation made whole again.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday delivered a raw, empathetic and optimistic address to Americans, urging them to “hang on” as they faced a long, hard winter and with coronavirus cases spiking across the country.
“Looking back over our history, you see that it’s been in the most difficult circumstances that the soul of our nation has been forged,” Mr. Biden said, speaking directly to the camera from the stage at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., where he positioned himself as the leader of a suffering nation and stepped into a void left for him by the current occupant of the Oval Office.
In language that served as an implicit repudiation of President Trump, he urged Americans to come together to fight the virus. “I know the country has grown weary of the fight. We need to remember we’re at war with the virus, not with one another, not with each other,” he said.
Later, as he urged Americans to wear face masks and practice social distancing, he noted, “None of these steps we’re asking people to take are political statements. Every one of them is based on science, real science.”
Mr. Trump, in the early days of the pandemic, had tried to brand himself as a “wartime president,” before claiming, inaccurately, that the country had “rounded the curve.”
Mr. Biden on Wednesday appeared to pick up the wartime mantle.
“America is not going to lose this war,” he said. “Don’t let yourself surrender to the fatigue.”
Mr. Biden spoke minutes after Mr. Trump called into a hotel gathering of Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to discuss baseless allegations of voting irregularities in the state, where he again claimed he won the election he had lost and demanded that the election results be “turned” in his favor.
Mr. Biden, in contrast, praised the sanctity of the vote and the many Americans who cast their ballots in record numbers despite the raging pandemic.
“Our democracy was tested this year,” he said. “What we learned is this. The people of this nation are up to the task. In America we have full and fair and free elections. And then we honor the results.”
He called voting “the noblest instrument of nonviolent protest ever conceived.”
Mr. Biden’s speech was infused with his own personal pain, which he often draws from as he seeks to lead a country that has so far lost more than 260,000 lives to the pandemic.
“I remember that first Thanksgiving, the empty chair, the silence,” he said, referring to the death of his son Beau Biden in 2015. “It takes your breath away. It’s really hard to care. It’s hard to give thanks. It’s hard to even think of looking forward. It’s so hard to hope. I understand.”
How will the Thanksgiving holiday affect your trash pickup?
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collection in nearly every area county, including Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Most counties also do not have garbage pickup on New Year’s Day, but Duval County does. How the delay affects pickup varies by county.
We compiled a county-by-county breakdown of how trash service is affected by the holidays.
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Duval County
In Duval County, garbage collection schedules are adjusted ONLY for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
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- Thanksgiving: Customers with Thursday collection days will be serviced the following Saturday.
- Christmas: Schedules are changed only when the holiday falls on a scheduled collection day.
- Visit the Residential Waste Collection Schedule lookup page and type in your address for the revised schedule.
Solid waste collections for New Year’s Day will run on a normal schedule.
To request collection service or report a problem with collection, call 904-630-CITY (2489) or visit 630city.coj.net.
St. Johns County
Garbage, recycling, and yard debris will not be collected on Thursday, Nov. 26, and the Tillman Ridge and Stratton Road solid waste scale houses will be closed. They are also closed on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Beginning Nov. 27, collections for the Thanksgiving weekend will be delayed one day with all routes being completed by Saturday, Nov. 28. Scale houses will resume standard business hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
Two service providers collect solid waste in St. Johns County: Advanced Disposal and Republic Services.
Here is their holiday schedule information:
Advanced Disposal
The Advanced Disposal office will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26, and will reopen for normal business hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
There will be no service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Republic Services
There will be no collection on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Day.
Service will run one day late, so Thursday customers will be collected on Friday, and so on for the week of Thanksgiving. Please place your cans out by 6 a.m. for pickup.
For specifics on your service area, enter your address in the search at https://www.republicservices.com/schedule.
Clay County
For the residents of unincorporated Clay County and the city of Keystone Heights, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holiday waste collection will move to the following day, with any Friday collections moving to Saturday.
Make sure to have your trash/recycling at the road by 6 a.m.
Advanced Disposal
The Advanced Disposal office will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26, and will reopen for normal business hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
There will be no pickup service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
To sign up for service alerts, click here.
Green Cove Springs
Thanksgiving: No pick up on Thursday and Friday. All Services will be picked up on their next scheduled day.
Christmas: No pick up on Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25. All Services will be picked up on their next scheduled day.
New Year’s Day 2021: No pick up on Friday, Jan. 1. No service change.
For more Green Cove Springs information, click here.
Nassau County
There will be no pickup on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Day.
If one of the holidays falls on your service day, your trash will be collected the following day. For example, if your normal collection day is Thursday and a holiday is on Thursday, you will be serviced on Friday.
To sign up for service alerts, click here.
Flagler County
Waste Pro is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26 and for those with a pick up on that day, their collection will occur the next day. For example, if you are scheduled for garbage or recycling pickup on Thursday, it will be picked up Friday, Nov. 27, and if you are scheduled on Friday, it will be picked up on Saturday, Nov. 28.
Christmas Day trash and recycling service will be rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 26.
New Year’s Day trash and recycling services will be rescheduled for Saturday, Jan. 2.
For more information, click here.
Bunnell
Thanksgiving: Closed no service – All Commercial dumpsters will be serviced on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Friday, Nov. 27 will be a regular citywide service day. Grand Reserve Customers will have there Thursday, Nov. 26, service done on Friday, Nov. 27.
Christmas Week: Service will run as normal Monday-Wednesday. On Dec. 24, Thursday commercial and Grand Reserve garbage will be done like normal. There is no service on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25. The next residential garbage service day will be the following Tuesday.
New Year’s Week: Service will run as normal Monday-Wednesday. On Dec. 31, Thursday commercial and Grand Reserve garbage will be done like normal. There is no service on New Year’s Day, Friday, Jan. 1.
Flagler Beach
No change on holidays.
Putnam County
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are county and Waste Pro holidays.
If your pickup day falls on one of these days, the next day will be your pickup day.
All other pickups that week will fall back one day. (Example: Monday to Tuesday, Tuesday to Wednesday, Wednesday to Thursday, Thursday to Friday, and Friday to Saturday for the remainder of that week only.)
For more information, click here.
Baker County
The county is serviced by Advanced Disposal.
The Advanced Disposal office will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26, and will reopen for normal business hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
There will be no pickup service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Macclenny
When your scheduled pickup day falls on a holiday, your pickup will generally occur the following day.
For more information on Macclenny’s new garbage services, click here.
Bradford County
The county is serviced by Advanced Disposal.
The Advanced Disposal office will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26, and will reopen for normal business hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
There will be no pickup service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
If a holiday falls on your service day, your trash will be collected the following day. Routes will be delayed by one day the rest of the week after a holiday.
For example, if your normal collection day is Tuesday and a holiday is on Tuesday, you will be serviced on Wednesday. If a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Biden urges Americans to recommit to fighting pandemic in Thanksgiving address
President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Americans to recommit to fighting the deadly coronavirus pandemic in a Thanksgiving address ahead of the holiday.
"I know the country's grown weary of the fight. But we need to remember, we're at war with the virus, not with one another. Not with each other. This is the moment where we need to steel our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight," Biden said, speaking from Wilmington, Delaware. "Let's remember: We're all in this together."
The Thanksgiving holiday comes as coronavirus cases spike nationwide, bringing the total of deaths in the US up to nearly 260,000 as of Wednesday, and as a fresh wave of public health restrictions have been put in place to control the spread of the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended last week that Americans do not travel for Thanksgiving, and the nation's top infectious disease doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, asked Americans to keep their indoor holiday gatherings as "small as you possibly can."
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Biden said at a news conference last week that his family was scaling back their typically large Thanksgiving gathering and following the guidelines put forward by health experts who say there should be no more than 10 people in a room. He said those attending would be tested for the virus within 24 hours of getting together.
Biden, who was projected to win the presidential election more than two weeks ago, was informed on Tuesday by the General Services Administration that the Trump administration was ready to begin the formal transition process. Trump has so far refused to concede the election that Biden won decisively, and his administration had until this week held up the transition process as the President continued to make false claims about election rigging and widespread voter fraud.
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Queensland border to reopen to Victoria after no new COVID-19 cases
Queensland will reopen its borders to Victoria after the state recorded its 26th consecutive day of zero coronavirus cases and deaths.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told Today - before Victoria's case numbers were released - that Victorians would be welcomed back in the state from December 1 if cases remained at zero today, which they did a short time later.
"This is going to mean so much for families across the nation," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"I know how hard it's been. I know people have got friends and family in different states and they haven't been able to see each other and it has been awful.
"But there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Christmas is a great time to be reunited.
"Please come to Queensland and we look forward to welcoming you with open arms."
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The premier yesterday declared Queensland would open its borders to the rest of NSW also on December 1, providing there was no community transmission.
Victoria was officially declared virus free yesterday, with the state's last active case dropping off after a number of weeks.
More than 16,000 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours.
Premier Daniel Andrews earlier told Today he was "confident" Queensland's border would reopen to Victoria after the state reached the key milestone of 28 days of no community transmission.
"I don't criticise other states for putting their state first," Mr Andrews said.
