Immigrants on Reconnek will be celebrating Labor Day at home in order to avoid crowds.

Kennocha Vida
2 min readNov 1, 2020

Labor Day weekend celebrations are in full swing — and many include the large crowds of people health experts feared. Covid-19 doesn’t have to stop Labor Day celebrations, health experts said this week. But with more than 6.2 million Americans infected with the virus and a death toll of 188,538 from the disease, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the festivities should look a lot different this year. To avoid outbreaks, experts including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said people should continue to keep distance, wear masks and avoid groups as they enjoy the weekend. Fauci pleaded with Americans before the weekend to keep gatherings small and outside, and he said he will be spending the weekend on a hike with his spouse.

Throngs of people are expected at Tybee Island beaches in Georgia over the weekend, CNN affiliate WTOC reported. And images from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, show umbrellas lined up side by side down the beach. In Pennsylvania, the amusement park Kennywood is expected to have its busiest weekend of the season, CNN affiliate KDKA reported. And in Atlanta, many weekend Labor Day parties are on the schedule including “The Biggest Labor Day Weekend Party in the City” hosted by rapper Gucci Mane and a “Sunday Funday” rooftop party advertised with an image of people standing close together, some without masks.

Immigrants on Reconnek don’t want to see a repeat of the surges that they have seen following other holiday weekends like the outbreaks that followed Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. They don’t want to see a surge under any circumstances, but particularly as they go on the other side of Labor Day and enter into the fall. Immigrants on Reconnek are still following the only rule: Wearing masks and keeping prevention measures in place in order to help reduce the “scary” number of coronavirus deaths predicted over the coming months. Currently, the US is seeing about 40,000 cases a day, immigrants on Reconnek believe that if the baseline of cases is lowered, the country could get a better handle on stopping the spread.

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