Coronavirus? What coronavirus? That is what the thousands of tourists and local residents of Miami Beach seem to think who enjoy the beach, parties in nightclubs and the atmosphere in streets in which many forget that Florida registers its worst days since the pandemic began. coronavirus.
With or without COVID – 19, the usual fauna of the popular Ocean Drive promenade strolls their Half-naked bodies and their usual self-confidence while the happy conversations that come from the crowded restaurant terraces, a wide variety of music and the effluvia of marijuana that there is no mask to mitigate are mixed.
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One of those who contribute to this bustle is the group of friends of Brazilian Silvio Maraca, who traveled to enjoy the good weather and the Miami Beach party, without fear of catching it or infecting it.
In you c So, he says in conversation with Efe, without a mask, of course, it is because the disease has passed and the test was negative prior to getting on the plane to Miami.
Regarding not covering your mouth, explains that since the police only “threaten” to issue a fine, without going older, and only if one gets very close to them without a mask, it is as easy as not approaching the agents and maintaining a philosophy that many in Miami seem to follow Beach: “The fun of the moment is worth more than the possible punishment.
Nightlife in full swing
And it is that tourists and locals shamelessly boast of breaking the rules, and many upload to their social networks samples of those moments of merriment that the health authorities fear will later become the drama of themselves, a family member or any stranger with which they run into when they are already, perhaps, infected.
As shown hip-hop singer Tyga , who He animated a party at a Miami Beach nightclub last New Year’s Eve and then uploaded a video of the traditional countdown to Instagram that ushered in the New Year in a place full of people and where, without a doubt, it was not very rigorous to the time to keep the distance of two meters between the dozens of attendees.
AND Tyga is still partying and this Saturday he added another at the Story nightclub in Miami Beach, one of the main cities in Miami-Dade County, the most affected by the covid – 19 in Florida , which this week beat its record for positive cases with 17. 192 in a single day, well above the 15. 300 that was recorded in the worst of the first wave last summer.
S in fears
But that little seems to scare the walkers of Lincoln Road, Española Way and Ocean Drive , even now that the much more contagious British strain of covid – 19 was detected in Florida in a young man who had not traveled anywhere part in the incubation period.
And all this also despite the fact that a curfew is in force from midnight to 6 in the morning and a mask or similar must be used in public places and social distance must be maintained, on pain of receiving a possible fine.
But the Venezuelans living in Santiago de Chile Albert Chacón and Juan Manuel Torres , visiting Miami Beach, they say that few police officers have seen streets where “half of the people” go without a mask.
“If compared to security measures in Chile, Miami Beach is far behind, ”says Chacón, while Torres believes that, although the “Fear” of getting infected, you have to “learn” to live with the virus, because, otherwise, being self-conscious about enjoying the good times would mean “stopping living” in life.
And Miami-Beach is not an isolated case and it is a panorama that has been repeated in other tourist cities in Florida, both coastal and Fort Lauderdale or Tampa or Orlando , where this week several theme parks had to close their doors a few minutes after opening because they had already reached the maximum allowed capacity.
Nothing seems to scare those who bet on the good weather and fun of Florida without apparently giving too much importance to the fact that, after California and Texas, Florida is the third worst hit state in the US, the country with the highest number of cases globally.
Let the party continue.