Posted on 11/23/2020 7:28:17 AM PST by SJackson
More than two million people flocked to US airports this weekend ahead of Thanksgiving — despite health officials urging Americans to nix their travel holiday travel plans.
There were 1,019,836 passengers who passed through airport security checkpoints Friday, followed by another 984,369 on Saturday, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
The figure was still only around 42 percent of the number of travelers who were screened last year on the same dates, data shows.
But the weekend was one of the busiest for airports since the pandemic began.
Friday’s traffic marked the second-highest number of people traveling in the skies since March — only topped by the 1.03 million passengers on Oct. 18.
The rush of travelers comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving.
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Voting with their wings!
Once the mayors let the leftist rioters run free as though Covid did not exist, it was game over....
Either the disease was a serious threat or it was not—the politicians can’t have it both ways.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
That fits nicely, doesn't it.
Yup. YOU GO, AMERICA!
It’s not just the US. The whole world is done with this nonsense.
We are learning to live with the virus just like our ancestors did with smallpox and polio, just to name a few deadly viruses.
Voting with their wings!, yes, better. Though most airports, you get to use your feet.
If this was oh-so critical to the survival of humanity, why weren’t all flights just simply grounded?
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