The queues at COVID checks across the country are incredibly long right now. One check in Denver recently had to close an hour after it opened because it had already reached its maximum capacity, and another in Olympia, Washington, had to turn down two hundred cars. because the labs were overflowing, according to the Washington Post. They reject other people in Connecticut and cars move around the parking lots in Florida.
In New York, other people make public service announcements by sharing their experience in the queue, spending more than two, 4 or even 8 hours on the sidewalk. Now there is even a full Twitter account committed to tracking intimidating lines outside the gates of the CityTM emergency care intermediate chain. What’s all this about? Surely they do not plan to come in combination without social estating or mask for Thanksgiving, which our government complained very quietly and pathetically that it sought that other people would not.
Despite surely relentless warnings from officials, it turns out that hordes of others are undergoing COVID testing to justify their next misguided Thanksgiving demonstration. Strong and consistent public aptitude guidelines. Just 4 days ago, the CDC introduced the concept that traveling and/or collecting for Thanksgiving might not be the safest measure, and it wouldn’t be crazy, exactly, if other people met here; just a little disappointed.
A vast majority of epidemiologists recently interviewed via the New York Times said they would not celebrate Thanksgiving with anyone outdoors in their homes this year, posing the dangers that even small, intimate gatherings pose to the transmission of COVID. -19. Even in cases where everyone at a Thanksgiving table has been recently checked, a check only shows a snapshot of an express moment in time. The negative test on the Monday before Thanksgiving, in other words, does not necessarily guarantee that a user will not be contagious and / or have symptoms until Thursday.
That has been the case for almost 8 months, however, thousands of other people camp on the sidewalks and in their cars to get tested, challenging logic and explanation of why and opening what will almost be an incredibly fatal holiday season.
“At what point can things get worse, too?” You may be wondering, as you line up for emergency care, scrolling through to pass the time before your own test. Canada celebrated its own Thanksgiving on October 11, and while our northern neighbors have done a much greater task in controlling the coronavirus pandemic. , the country is experiencing a post-Thanksgiving increase: about 2,000 new cases each day in mid-October to an average of 4,776 cases compared to the day through mid-November. house if you need a chance at a “normal Christmas,” which is already out of the question.
According to Politico, AAA predicts that Thanksgiving travel to the United States will fall by at least 10% compared to last year, which is significant, but not enough. The firm estimates that around 50 million other people will attend Thanksgiving rallies this week, with terrible consequences as we enter the rest of the holiday season. As fitness experts have warned, the only moral option is to stay home. The lines that form from coast to coast recommend that many other people do not make this selection, despite the agitation of elected officials.
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