Stay Safe over Labor Day!
- fionacsweet
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min read
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made a plea to Americans to continue following all COVID-19 social distancing guidelines over Labor Day weekend.
He said this in an interview with MSNBC yesterday: The issue that we're facing right now is we're entering in a day or two right now into the Labor Day weekend and we know from prior experience that when you get into holiday weekends — the Fourth of July, Memorial Day — there's a tendency of people to be careless, somewhat, with regard to the public health measures that we keep recommending over and over again. So I really want to use this opportunity almost to have a plea to the people in this country to realize that we really still need to get our arms around this and to suppress these types of surges that we've seen. We can do it. You can have an enjoyable weekend, but you can do a couple of fundamental things that we talk about all the time. Masks, distance, avoiding crowds, outdoors much more than indoors, washing your hands — those types of simple things."
As I have reported on earlier, some of our previous surges of coronavirus have been attributed to Memorial Day weekend and the Fourth of July. We have to really be careful this time not to let our festivities get out of hand. I don't know about the rest of my school's seniors, but I want to go back to school sometime this year, and we can't do that until we stop having intermittent outbreaks.
So, have fun on your three day weekend, but make sure to keep your distance from friends and wear a mask when necessary!
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