ADVANTAGE, CHEVROLET.

The federal government's terminally blinkered senior public health officials are at it again.  First, Anthony "Schnickel Fritz" Fauci, M.D. urged people to be cautious about gathering for Christmas.  "You don’t have to cancel Christmas this year — just keep gatherings small, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday."  It's not about "cancelling Christmas," but it sure looks like "cancelling Christmas."

He encouraged people to “stay at home as much as you can, keep your interactions to the extent possible to members of the same household.”

“This cannot be business as usual this Christmas because we’re already in a very difficult situation, and we’re going to make it worse, if we don’t do something about it,” he added

That might be, although it's hard to square all this talk about travel causing infections with continuing mass-casualty events in the rest homes.  It isn't helping, either, when his colleague, Deborah "Scarf Queen" Birx, M.D., is twisting herself into all sorts of pretzels over ... venturing out to prepare a dacha for sale.  First, there was a large family gathering at the dacha.

The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present.

"One of her vacation properties."  Political economy of Democrat lockdowns, anyone?  Then comes the rationalization.

She insisted the purpose of the roughly 50-hour visit was to deal with the winterization of the property before a potential sale — something she says she previously hadn't had time to do because of her busy schedule.

“I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving,” Birx said in her statement, adding that her family shared a meal together while in Delaware.

Birx said that everyone on her Delaware trip belongs to her “immediate household," even as she acknowledged they live in two different homes. She initially called the Potomac home a “3 generation household (formerly 4 generations).”

Busy schedule. That's rich.

I've seen the following Chevrolet commercial multiple times, particularly during the football games.

Note, "Wherever you go this holiday." Not "If you go."  Just go.

A Town Hall columnist is more forceful.

I'd rather risk the astronomically low risk of death from COVID-19 and see my children for Christmas than risk the misery, loneliness and depression that comes from isolation and lockdowns.

That's the missing ingredient Fauci doesn't get. American patriots like me love running our businesses. We love God. We love family. We love Christmas. And we love freedom and personal responsibility. All of that is so important to us we'd rather risk illness, or a tiny risk of death, than close our businesses, stop working, give up our freedom or cancel holidays with our families.

That's the tame part.

I suspect, though, that Festive Season travel will be close to regular volumes, and from Atlantic to Pacific, gee, the traffic is terrific.