Burdett says, this year especially, we should prepare for talk across the Christmas turkey to become more heated than usual. And with the increased pressure of jabs and boosters and people feeling cornered and everybody a little bit brittle, Christmas time is usually when things come to the fore. We used to say things like, 'it's Christmas, let's move on, let's ignore these, let's not bring politics in,' that sort of thing. When we say things from our emotional brain, our limbic system, we often say things we might later regret. "If somebody's absolutely aggressive and getting quite overheated, all you say is, 'You're right.

Source: Stuff December 22, 2021 14:12 UTC