{"id":2190,"date":"2020-12-24T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2020-12-24T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:35:02","slug":"hes-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"He’s Coming to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well here it is time for my almost annual Christmas Blog. Christmas will be a little quite around our house this year, but I think it\u2019ll still be nice. Christmas activities, like everything, have changed\u2026 probably not so much for us, but certainly for our kids and grandkids. I think all the grandkids make an annual visit to Santa to tell him how good they\u2019ve been during the year, but this year Santa is a little harder to find \u2014 he doesn\u2019t seem to be hanging around the malls as much. But I know that Emily has written Santa several letters \u2014 actual letters<\/em>, not e-mail! And I think she did a FaceTime call with him. I\u2019m pretty sure Locke, Rory and Ellie have also been in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly one bit of good news is that Santa doesn\u2019t have to worry about getting COVID-19, or spreading the infection. This was especially good news to me, because I\u2019m pretty sure Santa falls into the overweight category and I think he\u2019s even older than me \u2014 placing him squarely in the high-risk group. I do think Santa has been taking coronavirus precautions though \u2014 he\u2019s been making fewer appearances and he appears to be socially distancing. The pictures I\u2019ve seen of him in stores and malls looks like he\u2019s almost always behind plexiglass of some sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I feel even better after Dr. Fauci said that Santa is exempt from the virus because of all his good qualities \u2014 he has developed a lot of good inane immunity. I\u2019m sure Dr. Fauci is right. After all, if Santa can fly around the world in one night, deliver millions of toys and eat all those cookies, he certainly can develop an immunity to coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I\u2019m feeling pretty good about Santa \u2014 seems like he\u2019s pretty much got his bases covered. But \u2014 in my experience, no matter how well you\u2019re prepared and have thought things through, you always need a contingency plan. I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to have made a lot of contacts in strategic places over the years, and several of my contacts have assured me that if the impossible should happen and Santa does contract COVID, the North Pole has laid out contingency plans so as to not disrupt the toy delivery. Mrs. Claus could go if Santa gets sick and can\u2019t go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can all rest easy tonight \u2014 Santa will come and he won\u2019t be bringing COVID.
It may be different, but it\u2019ll be just as special \u2014 Merry Christmas to all!!!
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