Millions of Americans are ignoring the pleas from public health experts and officials to stay home for the holidays with coronavirus cases still surging following Thanksgiving travel and taking to the roads and skies ahead of Christmas and New Year’s.
“I don’t think there’s any restriction that anybody could put in place that would keep people from getting together with their families,” UMass Memorial President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson told the Herald.
More than 5 million people passed through the nation’s airport security checkpoints between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration. That includes 133,688 air travelers who passed through New England’s six airports.
The increase in travel comes despite repeated pleas by Gov. Charlie Baker, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and the nation’s infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci for people to celebrate only with people in their households.
“We can’t let fatigue cause us to make poor decisions this holiday season that end up making us backtrack, especially when we are so incredibly close to getting ourselves and everyone else across the finish line,” Adams said, referring to the start of COVID-19 vaccinations.
While air travel is down 60% from the same time last year, it still amounts to around a million passengers per day — similar to what was seen in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
AAA is predicting about 84.5 million will travel — mostly by car but also by plane, train and bus — this holiday season from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3. That’s 29% fewer people than last year.
Despite the drop, they’re still big numbers that have public health experts worried.
Massachusetts saw cases spike and hospitalizations more than double in the 10 days after Thanksgiving. If that happens again, when the state still hasn’t recovered from the earlier surge, Dickson said the state’s health care system will be in trouble.
Herald wire services contributed to this report.
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Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx and Governor Baker should be put in the same cell in a prison, with no bars, just solid walls so they cannot pass covid to the rest of the population. Fauci, Birx and Baker will be required by law, to wear masks 24 hours a day. Through their masks, they can talk about their “models” for the coronavirus. Please give me an airsick bag, These clowns make me sick.
I’d include Cuomo, Biden, pelosi, Barr, Witchmer, newsome, and that egg head in portland and seattle in that… AND THEN THROW away the map, showing the location of that sealed in cell..
Ho hum. More fake news and fake numbers. Americans are catching on to the scam. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln.
Mark my words, somewhere down the line we will get the total deaths statistics for 2020 which I predict will be the same or perhaps lower in totality than the previous 5 years, except for 2018 which will exceed it due to the H1N1 flu outbreak. The media and the Democrats have contrived with liberal government entities dependent on Government funding to keep the Chinese virus perpetually in our faces with non-stop statistics showing people who died WITH the virus as dying FROM the virus so they can use fear to get the means of accomplishing the ends of their socialist reorganization of our Republic into a failed state, whose former productive wealth is now destined to be sociallhy redistributed on a worldwide basis. The number through the first 9 months according to the CDC are close to historical averages/yr of between 7500 and 8000 deaths per day, like of which in 2018 61,000 died that year or 170/day which none of which are reported today. People are dying of CANCER, AIDS, LUNG DISEASE, HEART DISEASE, COMPLICATIONS FOR SICKLE CELL ANEMIA, etc. who were scheduled to die anyway this year but because they test positive for the Chinese virus they are shown to be victims of the pandemics. It’s a media ruse whose numbers get inflated around Christmas so the seculars can shut down our worship houses, and shopping malls to enrich Amazon’s Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill gatges and others who bought Biden/Democrats into office in campaign donations.
AS long as 99.9% of the media, is in the dems pockets, I DOUBT WE will ever get PROPER facts and numbers…
Is it no wonder?! After nearly a year of heavy-handed policies by those ‘do as I say’ leaders(?) who themselves didn’t take their own edicts to the public seriously enough and getting caught ignoring them the ordinary citizen is skeptical about any measures pronounced to be for the control of the pandemic when past emergency orders have not done what was promised. The more we learn of stifled voices the more distrust we have for the ‘establishment’ that even worked against the President while advancing their own agendas in contradiction. Maybe we find the ‘not as I do’ more to our liking.
You can’t fix stupid. It isn’t just about You. You won’t go to work or send your kids to school. It too dangerous because of the virus. But you fly
Way to go fellow Americans, you who choose to be one since it is a choice, not a race.