“My birthday is tomorrow, and I’d love to go to the beach,” says one Georgia resident. “But I also don’t want to get coronavirus for my birthday'
“Typically what you see when you drive past [people on the beach] is, they’ll suddenly start doing push-ups or something,” Shawn Gillen, the city manager of Tybee Island, tellsGillen says that last weekend, Tybee Island saw about 6,700 visitors, according to data tracking how many cars enter the island via bridge. Very few of them wore masks, he said, and he saw people sitting in groups on towels counter to the ordinance, with some groups being broken up by Georgia State Patrol officials.
Almost 7,000 guests is less than would normally be expected during the month of April, but Gillen is expecting the number to continue to trend upward, particularly after the state’s shelter-in-place order expires on April 30th. “Basically the beaches will be wide open so we expect to start hitting the 10,000 numbers. Saturday and Sunday we’ll be in the 10,000 range,” he predicts.
With more crowds, he’s anticipating further difficulties keeping people apart. “We have about five miles of beachfront and when you get thousands of people on the beach like you got Saturday, you have thousands of people and 4-5 officers trying to enforce the rules,” he says. “That’s a challenge.” “My birthday is tomorrow, and I’d love to go to the beach,” says Torrence. “But I also don’t want to get
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