The #stayhome brigades are shaming tourists, however summer season travel might be what this nation requires.

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By.
Dave Seminara

I’m a compulsive tourist who is beyond ready for my next repair. And so, when my spouse’s household, who reside in Dekalb County, Ill., proposed that we fulfill this summer in a small town in Tennessee that is approximately midway from our house in Florida, I was all for it. I got in touch with a venerable, historic hotel in eastern Tennessee to see if it was taking appointments. “If you are considered to be in a hotspot location (100 present cases),” the hotel responded, “we will ask that you hold off on your go to.” Dekalb County (population 105,160) had 211 active cases (however just 2 deaths) at the time, and Pinellas County, Fla., where we live, …