DUNDALK, MD – End of summer: parades, beaches and big parties make up the plans for Labor Day weekend – peak years.
But 2020 is unlike any other year, and the holiday celebrating American staff will be another in Dundalk, and also in the United States, with the coronavirus pandemic in its sixth month.
Many of the country’s largest parades and overdue summer festivals have been cancelled or minimized to allow social estating and prevent the spread of the virus.
Here are things to know about holidays:
1. What’s open, closed
County government offices and district and circuit courts will be closed on Labor Day Monday; The Department of Health’s coronavirus testing sites will be closed and CountyRide pickup trucks will be up and running; all Baltimore County Public Library branches will be closed and parking meters will be loose on Labor Day. .
County citizens deserve to refer to their specific collection schedule for when to dispose of fabrics during the weeks that involve collection for a public holiday. Schedules can be downloaded from the Office of Solid Waste Management online page and the county’s BaltCoGo mobile app. The recycling centers will be closed on Monday and will reopen on Tuesday. The delivery centers will be open with general opening hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
Metro will operate during public holidays on Monday. Trains will run between 8 a. m.
2. How It All Started: Labor Day Story
The first Labor Day holiday held in 1882, with a parade in New York, however, the question of who first proposed the concept of a holiday to honor staff is in dispute more than a century later.
Congress recognized the party until History. com a “decisive moment” in the history of American hard work: the 1894 Pullman Palace Car Company strike in Chicago. The strike led to the sending of federal troops to the city to quell the troublemakers. Days later, President Grover Cleveland signed an invoice for which Labor Day, the first Monday in September, was a national holiday.
3. In one year, the unemployment rate has tripled
The unemployment rate has almost tripled in the last year as a result of the pandemic. Figures from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics indicated that the national unemployment rate in July was 10. 2%. This is lower than the first few months of the pandemic, but still much higher than the 3. 7% rate reported in the workplace in July 2019. Approximately 30 million jobs have been lost in the US, according to a June US Department of Labor report.
4. Not the virus
Health experts are the cautious Labor Day weekend planners on emerging coronavirus cases. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s most sensible infectious disease specialist, said next holiday weekend will be critical to determining whether the country can “try” to control the virus in the fall. He lobbied for the importance of preventing sudden increases that occurred after Memorial Day and July 4. A big Fourth of July party in New York City resulted in positive coronavirus diagnoses in a third of its attendees. The country’s largest annual Labor Day parade, held in downtown Pittsburgh, canceled in July due to concerns about the coronavirus. In 2019, the parade gathered some 10,000 protesters.
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, clinical director of Providence Health, told CNN this week: “Don’t mix in giant groups. Wash your hands. Don’t keep this going. “
5. Main destinations
Labor Day, the holiday that marks the end of summer and the beginning of the school year, is among the busiest holidays of the year. Although coronavirus plays spoiler in many ways, some of them are still continuing. The Pulse report, which shows Figures from Tripit of Concur, shows that Las Vegas, Denver, Orlando, Chicago and Seattle are the most popular American destinations in major cities for the weekend.
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