Christmas Cancelled due to Coronavirus

[DDRickyDD]

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

@LilacTree1
That’s crap about your dad dying, I’m sorry for that.
Easter didn’t happen for you, but it happened for lots of people, in which ever way was important for them.
It doesn’t sound odd and I understand how you can miss that social interaction.x

Did anyone else read the OP in the voice of Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham?

'And....CALL OFF CHRISTMAS!'

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

Easter happened in our house? On Good Friday we attended an online church service and went for a prayer walk around our local area. On Easter Saturday we had an Easter Egg hunt in the garden and on Easter Sunday we attended an online church service, had an extended family games afternoon on Zoom and had an Easter dinner.

Even family members who live alone attended online church, received Easter cards and gifts from us and joined in family zoom. Pretty rubbish Easter for them but it still happened.

Worst case scenario, Christmas will have the same restrictions. But it will still happen. And I hope extended families will be able to be together and people not have to be alone.

I know many people will have been going through incredibly tough situations at Easter and will not have been able to enjoy celebrations. But that is true of every year and every festival.

It came just the same...

It's a novel thought :-). Before last Christmas I learned about all sorts of things just from Mumsnet - elves on shelves, Christmas Eve boxes, even that Santa Claus really exists! I'd already decided to give Mumsnet a miss from the beginning of Advent until the new year but if the whole shebang is cancelled, there will be no need.

What are parents going to tell their nine year olds who still believe in Father Christmas? That he's having a year off?

There are a few months to go before we need to worry about Christmas (thankfully); who knows, there may be some normality by then, whatever that is.

I suspect we'd* all be willing to isolate for 2 weeks in advance to ensure our usual Xmas happens. It is our favourite day.

*That's the people that usually come to my o and not the whole of MN.

How did house get changed to 'o'?

It won't be cancelled. We'll have a festive new normal.

There'll be fairisle face masks, hand sanitisers with glittery bits and Morrisons will be flogging a Christmas food box to add to their 'occasions' collection.

I don’t know why people are playing the “The True Meaning of Christmas is Not About Commercialism” card? That’s neither here nor there. COVID or no COVID, those of us who have any disposable income left will be equally free to buy and send loads of extravagant and/or useless gifts, and to eat and drink ourselves silly.

What might be in doubt in the absolute worst case scenario is our ability to spend time with relatives we love, maybe have a party with a wider group of friends or colleagues, watch the DC’s nativity play and attend a church service in person. You may hate all those things, but surely they’re pretty close to the heart of Christmas.

Sam thank you

To be clear, dad didn’t die in this lockdown, it was last year. But I have a thing of helping at church because the vicar helped me. I’m sure the vicar didn’t expect anything in return but it seems right.

Selfishly, I was looking forward to that and have enjoyed helping out there. It’s a rough area and the church gives a sense of community and safety, to me at least.

LilacTree1 So why would you say Easter and Ramadan was cancelled?

Christmas won’t be cancelled - totally agree with you @Wolfgirrl

I kind of know what the OP means
Its not going to feel like Christmas if we are in lockdown and can't see family and friends

@OutwiththeOutCrowd not sure whether to laugh or cry at your post...sadly think you are spot on!

is Christmas cancelled?

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Santa is the very definition of a superspreader tbf

I think all those elves all under one roof could be a disaster waiting to happen.

They’d need to alter the production factory for social distancing.

Presents will need to be wiped clean.

You won’t be able to visit Santa or sit on his knee.

Not even sure if Santa should visit lots of homes. He’s the ideal spreader.

hand sanitisers with glittery bits

This would actually be a really good invention to show how widely the virus can travel - glitter gets everywhere!

I mean I guess you could argue Father Christmas is a super spreader, what with making so many house calls and use it as an excuse to not buy your kids presents? I see you mr grinch. Put some antibacterial coal in those stockings instead. Humbug!

Or we could just calm down a bit. It’s not even June.

Maybe, Santa might be shielding.

Obese, alcoholic, hundreds (even thousands) of years past the beginning of the 'at-risk' age group. No possible way to fit a mask securely over his luxuriant beard. Children aren't usually badly affected, but they can easily be effective carriers and super-spreaders - and he's planning on being in millions of the little darlings' bedrooms. And do we have any categorical scientific proof that CV is definitely NOT soot-borne?

He has already become the destroyer of nations, even just considering it....

Partially x-posted with everybody else

I think all those elves all under one roof could be a disaster waiting to happen.

A surefire international elf crisis.

@webuiltthisbuffet

glitter gets everywhere!

Glitter is the perfect way of showing people just how much you love them. By not sending them any glitter....