It’s Memorial Day weekend, which is ordinarily a time of massive travel mobilization by the American public. But the TSA reported that airport screenings yesterday (May 21) were just 318,449, representing a whopping 88% plunge from last year’s 2,673,635.
Needless to say, the 2,355,186 people who didn’t remove their shoes and belts or get a friendly patting down by TSA’s finest, also didn’t rent cars or buy food or trinkets at the airport and didn’t pay for hotel rooms, theme park tickets, restaurant meals, gasoline or retail goodies at the destination end of their trips.
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