South Carolina beaches fill, but COVID-19 takes no vacation

[bronxiteforever]

South Carolina beaches fill, but COVID-19 takes no vacation

By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press June 23, 2020 Updated: June 23, 2020 8:20 a.m.
Via Houston Chronicle

People are flocking to South Carolina's beaches for vacation after being cooped up by COVID-19 for months. But the coronavirus is taking no vacation. The state now has the fourth-highest new infection rate in the nation. (June 23)


MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The elevator doors opened and inside were 10 people crammed into a space no bigger than a closet, none of them wearing a mask. In bathing suits, they walked out of the hotel, across the pool deck and into the sand in what is fast becoming South Carolina's hot spot for COVID-19 — Myrtle Beach. People in this resort city are leaving their cares — and sometimes their face coverings — at home after months of worry as hotels, restaurants and beaches reopen.

... The coronavirus has not taken a vacation. When hotels were allowed to start taking reservations again on May 15, there had been 283 COVID-19 cases in Horry County, which includes Myrtle Beach. By June 22, that number had climbed to more than 2,000, and infections had doubled in nine days.

And those numbers include only people who live in the county. The figures do not count anyone who tests positive after taking COVID-19 home along with a souvenir hermit crab or an airbrushed T-shirt. Business leaders estimate 20 million people visit the area each year, 60 times Horry County's population of about 330,000.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/South-Carolina-beaches-fill-but-COVID-19-takes-15359009.php

[soothsayer]

1. Horryble

[we can do it]

3. I see what you did there😂

[BusyBeingBest]

2. I get not wanting to shelter at home for the rest of the summer.

I'm not doing that. And it isn't an option for my husband and son, they've all been going back to work. I do NOT get not wearing a mask indoors or on public transportation, or being in any kind of crowd. I can't figure out why people think there's any difference between April and now.

[Stuart G]

4. ....Stupid is still..."STUPID"

[Ex Lurker]

5. was in a restaurant the other day

indoor dining but with tables separated and only 5 people per table. An extended family came in, 9 or 10 people and insisted on all sitting together. They left when they weren't allowed to.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. ...