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As city-dwellers panic-flee to their vacation homes, locals wish they would go away
Hot Air ^ | March 24, 2020 | John Sexton

Posted on 03/24/2020 12:50:52 PM PDT by 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:

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: class; coronavirus; vacation; virus
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They’re not dealing with people sick with a virus during the summer. Nantucket Cottage Hospital probably deals with mundane issues like broken bones etc. They will fly you to Boston for very serious problems. It’s not a very large place.


21 posted on 03/24/2020 2:07:12 PM PDT by surrey
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To: C19fan

Didn’t Dare County in NC close to all non-residents?


22 posted on 03/24/2020 2:18:19 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: clamper1797

I was just going to post that I would appreciate it if the snowbirds would go home already. Deplete your own grocery stores and leave the groceries for those if us who live and pay taxes here year round. I am beyond fed up.


23 posted on 03/24/2020 2:31:14 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: C19fan

How true. It goes way back.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/plague-in-london-1625-science-source.html


24 posted on 03/24/2020 2:38:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In our rural Oregon Coast community we import ER doctors for the summer. Our hospital will not be able to handle any virus outbreak with just the residents, let alone over loaded with outsiders.


25 posted on 03/24/2020 2:46:42 PM PDT by Cold Heart (.)
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To: TheDandyMan

Thank you.


26 posted on 03/24/2020 2:47:56 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: C19fan

Whats the problem.
“It’s just the flu bro, wash your damn hands”.
Hasn’t that been the mantra around FR for the last month?


27 posted on 03/24/2020 2:50:14 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: originalbuckeye
I would appreciate it if the snowbirds would go home already.

AMEN my friend ... In have heard "Snowbird go home" a few times recently ... they have certainly worn out their welcome

28 posted on 03/24/2020 2:55:32 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: clamper1797; originalbuckeye

We have the same problem, opposite seasons. City dwellers presently fleeing to their nort woots cabins with nothing but a can of ravioli and not enough sense to bring a can opener.


29 posted on 03/24/2020 2:59:14 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I got second hand racissized at work today. Vicious stuff that. Im going to make some avocado toast and find a safe spot.


30 posted on 03/24/2020 3:02:49 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: C19fan

Yep. Just like when the Italian government announced it would be locking down the northern region many northern Italians fled to stay with their southern relatives. In packed trains. COVID-19 is definitely coming to southern Italy.


31 posted on 03/24/2020 3:04:22 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: clamper1797
AMEN my friend ... In have heard "Snowbird go home" a few times recently

"Spread your tiny wings and fly away!"

32 posted on 03/24/2020 3:07:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TheDandyMan

Under current thinking, they are ‘visitors’, not years long residents. Therefore, yes, they could bring the crap with them to a small insulated area, and fuck it up for everybody else.
That would make them a threat to society, etc.


33 posted on 03/24/2020 3:16:54 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
How true. It goes way back.

That it does. Here's DeFoe's comments about the 1665 London Plague:

Upon the foot of all these observations I must say, that though Providence seemed to direct my conduct to be otherwise, yet it is my opinion, and I must leave it as a prescription, viz., that the best physic against the plague is to run away from it. I know people encourage themselves by saying God is able to keep us in the midst of danger, and able to overtake us when we think ourselves out of danger; and this kept thousands in the town, whose carcases went into the great pits by cartloads, and who, if they had fled from the danger, had, I believe, been safe from the disaster; at least 'tis probable they had been safe.

Daniel DeFoe, Journal of the Plague Year, 1722

34 posted on 03/24/2020 3:25:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That didn’t happen.


35 posted on 03/24/2020 3:48:08 PM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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To: C19fan

Gee...now they feel the same as border and illegal immigrant-heavy communities...poor things...


36 posted on 03/24/2020 3:54:45 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: C19fan

Aren’t these the people telling us we need to be “more urban”?


37 posted on 03/24/2020 6:43:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Leep

Well, they’re no longer allowed to sit in the donut shops.


38 posted on 03/24/2020 6:45:58 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: C19fan

I suspect the Obama’s are no longer in their DC home and off to their 2nd home in Martha’s Vineyard.


39 posted on 03/24/2020 6:49:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: midnightcat

Those in Western Pa who worked in NY city brought it back with them and it spread like wild fire. Same with Maryland.


40 posted on 03/24/2020 6:55:21 PM PDT by caww
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