But in recent days, Solo, who has asthma, grew increasingly worried about the health and safety issues of the coronavirus, as small groups continue to drive the virus’s spread. A few days before Christmas, Solo was putting up decorations and “faking it, hanging candy canes from light fixtures and pretending everything’s all right.”“That’s what you do when the world burns, right?” she said. The kids always put a lot of thought into their gifts, Solo said, trying to one-up each other to “win” Christmas. “We have tried to explain to him all year what we just refer to as ‘the virus,’ ” Perrin, 34, said. If it’s a miss, they jeer: “Air bow!” And playing on repeat in the living room is “A Christmas Story.”Now, Christmas is on hold till next year.

Source: Washington Post December 24, 2020 21:29 UTC