Thanksgiving Is Late In 2020 & Tips To Enjoy Even During COVID-19 Outbreak

A lot of countries across the world celebrate thanksgiving which is an annual day of gratitude marked by distinctive foods and festivities. In the United States, Thanksgiving is a special day to celebrate the abundance of the harvest and express a chi of thankfulness. This year in the United States, Thanksgiving Day occurs on November 26, 2020. And, as you all may know the keystone of the celebrations is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is usually attended by a mass of about 3.5 million people of different age groups and watched by over 50+ million on television.

Generally, every country across the world have a predicated special day to celebrate the bounty of the harvest and express a spirit of thankfulness. While each nation marks the day with unique traditions, they all center around a sense of community and the pleasures of preparing delicious foods and enjoying a feast in the company of others. 

Now let’s talk in particular about Thanksgiving in the American tradition. This festival is a combination of food, football, and family. Whether it’s pumpkin pie, roasted turkey, or bread stuffing, Americans put great emphasis on a Thanksgiving meal and delicacies.

A little about the Thanksgiving history

Actually, there is a reason behind Thanksgiving being so late this year. In reality, the story dates all the way back to the year 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt decided to stir the tradition a little in recognition of capitalism.

Since the time of Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving had been celebrated on the last Thursday of the month. But as per the TIME, during 1939, the calendar had been few and far between, as the month started on a Wednesday, so there were five Thursdays instead of four.

To maintain some order, Roosevelt changed the national holiday to the second-to-last Thursday of the month (a change that made many sad). Rather than focusing on the negative side, Roosevelt justified his decision with a pro-shopping retort: merchants would now have a holiday ahead of Christmas to enable them for more shopping time. In a manner, this resulted in the consumer craze holiday known as Black Friday approximately 80 years ago.

Tips to celebrate Thanksgiving day during COVID – 19 pandemic

Thanksgiving is a big one, and the question of what to do or what not to do will be perplexing us this November due to the novel Coronavirus pandemic. However, if coronavirus vaccines are available then thanksgiving will be more special. But only if. Otherwise large family gatherings and friendly rendezvous will likely be reduced to immediate family or the nearest of friends, and even then, it’s still quite a risk.

• For those of us who live in more temperate climates, it’s fortunate that a Thanksgiving cookout in a wide-open space, yard, or patio will make way for a better social distancing.
• Remember to make things like hand sanitizer, hand soap, face masks, and Lysol wipes handy at the entrance – disinfect each and everything, whether you have decided to host indoors or outdoors.
• Make sure to offer disposable napkins or paper towels, instead of hand towels in your bathrooms. And provide a touchless dustbin or trash which functions with either a foot pedal or a motion sensor.
• Offer sufficient space for social distancing by arranging areas to sit and eat with chairs dispersed no less than six feet apart. If your house is small in size include patio to have more area to host a Thanksgiving party.
• Try to make partitions if possible using room dividers and folding privacy screens of wood, metal, cloth, mesh wire, or others based on your theme and interior décor.
• And if the pandemic compels to cancel a Thanksgiving gathering with family and friends, then technology is always there to aid. It’s understandable that it may not be the same, but, you can leverage video conferencing tools like Zoom or Microsoft Teams to have a remote Thanksgiving fun too.

All in all, always take the chance that the Thanksgiving holiday offers you to express what small and big things you are most thankful for.