As city-dwellers panic-flee to their vacation homes, locals wish they would go away

Hot Air ^ | March 24, 2020 | John Sexton

[C19fan]

Places like Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard are usually packed with tourists and wealthy people who own second homes in the summer. But the coronavirus has made summer arrive early for many of these small towns as people from large cities flee to their second homes hoping to avoid infection. The locals in many of these places are not pleased at having these summer people show up, potentially bringing the virus with them, to a place where medical services are extremely limited. The company that owns the hospitals in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket has been asking people to stay away:

[C19fan]

Urban dwellers with the means fleeing cities during a plague is as old as time.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Reminds me of the bridge in New Orleans that was blocked off after Katrina.

[Red Badger]

Zombie apocalypse.....................

[Brilliant]

Cities aren’t the happy place they used to be.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

The locals in many of these places are not pleased at having these summer people show up, potentially bringing the virus with them, to a place where medical services are extremely limited

And, yet, a number of these people are open border morons.

[ifinnegan]

This is why NYC needed to be quarantined.

[Dilbert San Diego]

What happens with medical services in the summer when populations increase in these tourist areas? Are they lacking in summer normally, or have temp workers?

[aumrl]

Just leave your money and pay your taxes

[clamper1797]

Locals in my small Arizona resort town are becoming hostile towards out the of town visitors. They bring the virus with them ... buy out the groceries here and then act like we locals should kiss their asses for their dollars.

[Terry L Smith]

If the locals get sick with the virus, arrest the visitors nd seize their homes.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Corona gonna get you just like racism does.

[Inyo-Mono]

Locals in my small Arizona resort town are becoming hostile towards out the of town visitors. They bring the virus with them ... buy out the groceries here and then act like we locals should kiss their asses for their dollars.

Same here in our small resort town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Calif.

[TheDandyMan]

Arrest someone for being on their own property and the seize said property?

Calm down there Che.

[clamper1797]

I saw on FB that Residents of Murphys are putting up signs saying “locals only” ... it could get ugly. I heard more than once recently people yelling at out of state cars to go home.

[Inyo-Mono]

Our city council voted to tell visitors to stay out of our town. We get a lot of 20 somethings from Southern CA, 350 miles away, rock climbing and hiking here.

[Leep]

I’ve been noticing more police cars sitting in parking lots and on the move. Could just be a coincidence.

[clamper1797]

We get them here too. The snowbirds are nice people ... for the most part ... but we are a town 25k in the off season and 100k+ during the season. Our infrastructure isn’t designed to accommodate that many people year round. We would have to become LA east to do so.

[Pollard]

They cleaned out our little grocery store this weekend. This is a recreational area for people from St Louis. They come down for weekends mostly. Sunday afternoon, our grocery store had no potatoes, meat, milk or paper products.

[midnightcat]

same thing in South Jersey, where I am. They’re not loving the people from NYC coming down to the area and doing exactly what you describe.

[Inyo-Mono]

They cleaned out our little grocery store this weekend.

Same thing happened to my in-laws, they live in a very small town in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles. LA people drove up and cleaned out their little grocery store too.