“I don't expect to be seeing any customers for the next several weeks, just because the cases are so high,” he said. “I’m not worried about dying but I just hate being sick. It’s a little surprising, because it seemed to be getting a lot better and then six weeks ago it seemed to turn sideways.”
Traveling—or making plans to travel—is also difficult. More than 6,600 flights were canceled in the U.S. during the weekend, preventing many from returning home after holiday celebrations.
Some weren’t able to travel at all because of sickness. James Lecrichia, 26, in Long Island had to postpone his honeymoon to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia after he and his wife, a teacher’s assistant, both contracted Covid during Christmas. They had originally planned to fly out on Dec. 26, hoping to line up the vacation with his wife’s winter break, but then started to experience symptoms.
“I was expecting a spike like this to have happened way earlier, so to hear it come back now is more frustrating because we were expecting the world to be in a better place with vaccination going around,” he said. “But this variant doesn’t seem to care.”
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.