Covid-19 cases could explode after Labor Day: It's up to us to stop it

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Our history with Covid-19 has shown us one thing over and over — travel at holidays spreads the deadly virus with tragic consequences. Here's how to keep that from happening over Labor Day weekend.

Memorial Day came. We celebrated. We burst out of our suffocating homes with a damn-the-torpedoes surge, eager to see the places, family and friends we'd been yearning for during those smothering weeks of isolation.

Then we paid the price. Two or so weeks later, after the virus had incubated, cases of Covid-19 spiked, with 4 million more cumulative cases since Memorial Day. The surge ignited an upward trend we've been battling ever since.Covid-19 superspreading event in Boston may have led to 20,000 cases, researcher saysThe Fourth of July holiday didn't help -- that was another excuse to launch caution to the skies. By then, cities and states were also lifting restrictions.

"We have to be very careful," Mokdad said."Until we get a vaccine we have to change our way of life, create a new way of doing business, a new way of socializing. "The only way I can recommend for you to behave is to assume you are in fact infected, he added."Doing it this way sends a clear message to our children, our teenagers. We have to be role models ourselves in order to survive this virus with less damage and keep our economy going.

 

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Our history with COVID-19 shows it’s still a big political scam!!🙄🙄

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