Lisa Kehler and her circle of relatives go into her mother or sister’s space for Thanksgiving dinner, but Kehler’s 11-year-old son goes to school, her sister is a nurse, and her mother is immunosuppressed after a kidney transplant and has beaten cancer.
Therefore, with the accumulation of COVID-19 cases, the Thanksgiving culture was canceled.
“We didn’t need to put [our mother] in this situation,” Kehler said, adding that she and her sister had discussed having dinner together but decided not to.
Instead, he texted his sister to recommend postponing “and doing so when things are a little clearer about what’s happening with network broadcasting and that sort of thing,” she says.
Manitoba’s public fitness officials announced on Friday 84 new instances of COVID-19, a new one-day record, and said three more people with the disease had died.
The province now has 933 active instances of COVID-19, adding 804 in Winnipeg, which has been at the orange dot or “restricted” of the province’s pandemic reaction formula for about two weeks.
This imposes a limit of 10 more people at public meetings in and around the city. Meetings on a user would possibly have another 10 people in addition to the number of other people who live there.
These limits can have an effect on Thanksgiving celebrations this weekend. Earlier this week, the province’s Director of Public Health, Dr. Brent Roussin, suggested others avoid giant meetings.
“Reduce the number of nearby contacts that are outdoors in your home and, in fact, [have] guarantees. If you eat with others, be sure to keep that distance, sharing condiments and utensils,” Roussin said at Thursday’s new COVID-19 conference. .
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Compliance with public fitness regulations is this weekend because it gives Manitoba residents a better chance of avoiding long queues at COVID-19 control sites, said Michelle Driedger, a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.
“We’re all in the same boat. I know it sounds a bit like a hollow statement, because not everyone is as embarrassed as everyone else. But, in reality, we all want to do our component to make sure we don’t make a contribution to the additional spread,” said Dreidger, whose experience communicates the risks of fitness.
“[Staying away] is a challenge. . . It’s never a laugh and it’s complicated for other people who don’t necessarily have other people to interact with. “
But this has led some families to use artistic tactics for Thanksgiving.
Kehler will cook yñame and make salad and stuffing, while his sister will cook turkey, mashed potatoes, sauce and pumpkin pie. Kehler will leave a little of what she does at the door for her sister to choose and get something her sister does. wins in return.
Meanwhile, Winnipegger Candace Weselowski will hold one of the largest family reunions he has ever had, but virtually.
Weselowski, who is part of an Italian family circle, is used to seeing 25 or more parents gather in his uncle’s space on Thanksgiving. This year’s assembly was cancelled due to the potential fitness hazards of members of the family circle.
So he launched the concept of connecting through Zoom to his circle of relatives.
“No matter what we eat or drink at that time, we can just go online, say hello, make a percentage toast, communicate something about what we are grateful about. . . then continue our way and have to worry about cleaning all the dishes and everything afterwards,” he told them.
His circle of relatives enjoyed the idea, he said, and parents living in Italy, Alberta and New York will now also enroll in them.
“My aunt who is in Italy said to me, “Yes, I have it. It’s going to be like 1 a. m. here, I’ll be there, ” said Weselowski.
However, adaptation necessarily facilitates the scenario. Miriam Delos Santos, a member of the Philippine community of Winnipeg, says meetings like Thanksgiving are a big challenge in their culture and can come with dozens of people.
“It’s a little hard to accept that you may not be able to see these people, especially since we’ve been through so many restrictions and adjustments in this pandemic,” Delos Santos said.
“Even within my own circle of relatives, it has been difficult to comply with regulations all the time, especially since we are very close as a circle of relatives, and as a Filipino community, we earn and locate our identity a lot [by] spending time with others. “
Coverage of the circle of immunosuppressed relatives played a major role in canceling the meeting, he said.
A cousin advised the family circle to join through Zoom, he added, but if not, Delos Santos will probably spend Thanksgiving with his five-year-old daughter.
Instead of eating turkey and classic Filipino fare, either of you will most likely enjoy “something a five-year-old would eat,” he said, maybe mac and cheese, yogurt and chocolate.
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Nicholas Frew is an online journalist in Winnipeg. Originally from Newfoundland, Frew moved to Halifax to attend a journalism school before moving to Winnipeg. Prior to joining CBC Manitoba, Frew did an internship at Winnipeg Free Press. Idea of the story? Send an email to nick. frew@cbc. ca
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