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Perhaps the people were confused. Maybe the instructions were unclear. Somehow, after their arrival on the Island, late last week, a carload of tourists went to that top tourist attraction: a nearby Walmart.
Now, I don’t want to debate the wisdom of a public health rule that required going immediately into quarantine for a fortnight. I agree with the rule, but debate is such a difficult thing to understand when one side misunderstood the reasoning. No, I just want to point out that others are watching, and when you arrive in a car with “foreign” plates, and you have a lot of baggage, there might be an assumption that you are new in town.
Anyhow, the authorities were notified about a possible breach of pandemic protection. The car (empty at that point, in the middle of the parking lot) attracted officers, and when the passengers exited the store with their booty, they were stopped and questioned. In the absence of a proper motive, they were also ticketed (not for sale, for a penalty).
The tourists haven’t given their side of the story, yet, but I can tell you that many (MANY) other people are pleased about this whole “shop at Walmart, get a ticket” response to an obvious ignorance of local customs. Please, visitors, when you are instructed to hole up for the next fourteen days, nothing at the big box store will cancel this. I hope you bought enough junk food to cover your time in that hotel room. And may the germs you might have brought with you be nothing more toxic than stupidity.
