If you are in the turkey business, then welcome to the busiest and most stressful month of your life. I’m sure your life right now is hectic enough to make a political reporter’s workload look light by comparison. I’m also sure that all your scheduling, forecasting and planning was done months ago. Now, it comes down to making sure that orders are fulfilled and your inventory can hold up to the consumer demand for a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving.
A year ago, though, nobody could have planned for this particular Thanksgiving. Nobody would have foreseen a holiday when families would be too cautious to celebrate it together due to a dangerous pandemic, and where the large family gatherings might be reduced to a Zoom call.