Coronavirus: Will families be able to meet at Christmas and New Year's?

The world is preparing to live the sweetest time of a challenging and rarefied year by covid-19.

Family meetings for Christmas and New Year are tradition every year on those dates, although the coronavirus pandemic could upset plans. Family meetings for Christmas and New Year may be affected by the coronavirus crisis in the rest of the world' countries.

The rise of contagion worldwide threatens to see these meetings that every year are a tradition for celebrating family holidays. Some measures such as maintaining the safety distance or reducing the number of people gathered in private spaces could cause these to be the first Christmas holidays long damaged by the incidence of the pandemic.

In the future, when we remember the atrocious 2020 and tell what this Christmas was like, we will do it with a bittersweet taste. We will have ended the most terrible year of which we keep memories and the cups will help to leave behind what has been experienced and that the announced vaccine arrives soon.

Believers and non-believers, forums of the Christmas spirit and agnostics of this rite, we will all be infected, inevitably, by the emotional and cheerful climate that will float those days in the environment, which always ends up softening the most reluctant. However, the unheard-of conditions in which we will celebrate them, coupled with the heaviness we have dragged since March, will remind us of a strange Christmas, the rarest of our lives.

It is impossible to know at this time whether migrants will be able to return to their home locations to meet with their relatives, how many will be able to sit around the same.

Many older people waited for Christmas to leave their residences and join their relatives. Losing that rubbing will increase the feeling of sadness and helplessness they have already been dragging. The list of Christmas traditions that this year we will have foreseen is long and varied. But the set of rituals that we can celebrate is just as extensive. In the end, it will all depend on the attitude with which we face this experience. If we live it as a loss because of the resignations we'll have to assume, we'll feel bad. If we see it as a different Christmas, the emotional impact will be less.

Don't let your guard down, take care of yourself and take care of yours. Celebrate these festivities in the privacy of your home and with biosecurity measures. Remember that the covid-19 will not disappear overnight and, therefore, at Christmas the recommendations regarding the use of Masks, frequent hand washing and social distancing should be respected.

Choose to be happy. Everything is temporary, and this pandemic remindes us that we have no control over most things, but it does have at its fingertips the attitude with which it faces difficult times and lives special dates like Christmas.

This year 2020 will come to an end and will leave us, not only a great void, but also a great learning. It has been a clear example of how human beings can face extreme situations and draw strength even from where there are none.

We will have the memory, a couple of heartbreaking images and the internalization of the great philosophical conviction "the past times were always better."