Okay, let's go with that. I usually believe that going to visit family during a pandemic isn't a good idea because it's a great opportunity for people to spread it to other people. But dang it, just this once, I accidentally slipped up and traveled to Delaware with family. Oops. My bad.
C'mon man. Your defense of this is looking a bit contrarian.
Maybe she should publicly talk about this. Maybe tell us her secret to traveling with family during a pandemic while reducing the risk of spreading it to others.
The problem I have with it is this: Because we're so divided now, and full of rabid Karens (you should see my SIL's facebook, OMG) when health officials make guidelines like this, they're also creating a social mandate enforced by the angry mob. Not that they shouldn't give us guidelines, they should. But also they should follow them. But because it is the way it is, it divides us more when people defy their own guidelines. It makes people on one side of an issue use points to defend their side that they wouldn't use for the other.
We don't need more division. If you're a public figure and you advocate for some behavior, you better comply with your own suggestion. Is she a hypocrite? I dunno. I think if you really believe in something, you usually find a way to follow through. On the surface it sure looks like she's being hypocritical. I think you're charitably assuming the best, where you might not be so charitable with the other. And it's not that I'm assuming the worst of her. I can't assume she believes what she's saying. And if she does, it's not helping to convince people to do as she suggests. It only hurts her credibility. I think she does need to be called out for that. She should explain it. She owes an explanation better than the one she gave:
“I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving”
Uh huh.
"It was just immediate family"
Uh huh. Your kids, their spouses, and their kids. So when is it a small enough gathering to be okay?
"I don't like to put a number on it. Because you know, if you say it can be 10, and it’s eight people from four different families, then that probably is not the same degree of safe as 10 people from your immediate household."
Uh, huh. So were the people you were with from your immediate household? Hmmm?
"No. But I sacrificed too. I didn't see my parents."
Oh, well that was pretty ****ing brave of you.
Look man, this sounds like someone trying to justify doing the the thing she spoke out against. This is why if you're outspoken on a thing, and then you get caught doing something that's not the thing, the only thing you can do is confess." Instead she tried to justify it with a bull**** excuse.
