Holiday travel continues, despite pleas for the Bay Area to stay home

Holiday travel continues, despite pleas for the Bay Area to stay home

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/22/holiday-travel-continues-despite-pleas-for-bay-area-residents-to-stay-home/

Hundreds of thousands of people are traveling through the Bay Area’s airports this holiday season despite health officials’ pleas for people to stay home — prompting fears that another surge in COVID-19 cases could be just around the corner.

Though many people are heeding the warnings and forgoing travel this month, as evidenced by huge dips in airport activity, others are putting on their face masks and boarding planes. The longing to see family was too great to ignore, they say. So they altered plans, left grandma and grandpa off the guest list and quarantined before leaving in an effort to make their trips as safe as possible.