Christmas Cancelled due to Coronavirus

[DDRickyDD]

Do you think Chirstmas is going to be cancelled this year due to coronavirus?

Well it's pretty impossible to actually cancel it, but it might be different than usual.

It would probably be wise to plan and start shopping etc earlier than you otherwise might.

It depends on what Christmas means to you I suppose.
@Wauden
That did make me laugh 😆

Oh fgs. What a stupid thread.

Christmas itself won't be canceled, how ridiculous

Holidays. AT Christmas? Maybe.

Ffs. I'm so done with bullshit like this. Pack it in.

Are you serious?

If the Grinch couldn't keep Christmas from coming, then nobody/nothing can

Blossom “ Were Easter or Ramadan cancelled in the middle of lockdown? ”

Um....yes.

@Daffodil101
YES because the public conveniences are closed.
Now can we please get back to the baby Jesus.
😁

To be clear I do think Christmas will happen

But Easter mostly certainly didn’t, not any version of public celebration.

AgelikeWine

“ I really, really hope so. That would be the only good thing to come out of this appalling situation.”

This did really make me laugh. The only say I’d actually want a “stay at home” order! Imagine the peace!

*day

@LilacTree1
No they absolutely were not
They were observed and celebrated at home .

@LilacTree1 - I guess it depends what you consider Easter to be. In my world Easter involves a church service, a nice dinner & chocolate eggs. All that happened, albeit in slightly different form.

@Samtsirch Let's get back to the baby Jesus. Brilliant.
And there's an excuse to use the halo emoji!

@LilacTree1
Easter was celebrated, does it have to be a public celebration to be meaningful or to have actually existed ?
I may have misunderstood you, apologies if this is the case.😊

This is going to sound odd

I’m not religious but help out at church

The local vicar helped me when dad was dying

So Easter should have been about people, even just doing teas and coffees and helping the caretaker and vicar’s wife with stuff.

So AFAIC it didn’t happen.

Re public celebration

Most of the congregation are elderly and the fact that there was no church service was very upsetting for them.

Well, as I'm an atheist all Christmas means to me is that it's the time our daughter comes home for a few days. She's 29 and lives about 30 miles away. I've certainly wondered whether we will be seeing her at Christmas (and we haven't seen her since last Christmas).

Might as well be. The virus has already fucked up five important events for my family.

LilacTree1 Ramadan wasn’t cancelled, why would you think it was?

Ffs. Easter happened

You don't have to have a cup of tea at church to celebrate Easter.

Has Santa been furloughed too?

@Holothane why do you have to ask your husband's permission to have advent candles? Is he that controlling? LTB

I was planning on going on holiday to escape the extended family Christmas, maybe I won't have to do that now!

I'm also overjoyed at the thought of having a great excuse to avoid the work night out.

Nobody can 'cancel Christmas'. It's just...there.

The way in which it's celebrated might be a bit different but there's no harm in that.

Some of the best Christmas memories I have are not of massive gifts and loads of food but of those magical moments that you can't pay for.

Sitting in primary school in the 70s, looking at the massive tree in the hall as we had assembly.
Making cards with glitter ( a luxury I didn't have at home)
Seeing sheets of wrapping paper in the newsagents and having the money to buy some for the gifts I'd bought.

As an adult....walking to the post box with my small children in the frost to post a letter to Father Christmas.

Seeing the Round Table's Christmas float with music and lights one dark night and waking DD up to look out of the window at Father Christmas waving at all the houses.

Singing carols with my children and decorating leaves with glitter.

So many wonderful things to do that don't involve food, drink or big gatherings.

I hope it can be confirmed by then that Father Christmas has acquired immunity, otherwise socially distancing is going to be a nightmare in his job.

Santa in a mask?

Christmas is not cancelled in that we will still celebrate the birth of Christ..

maybe quite a few of the traditions will have to wait until the following year. (or Easter.. when I finally stopped feeling nauseus all the time in pregnancy for the first 16 weeks)

It is sad that it will not feel the same. I wonder whether last Christmas was my mum's last on earth, or last with us.

(got the stuffing in ready though.. )