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Spring-breakers defy coronavirus lockdown: ‘This virus ain’t that serious’
NYPost ^ | 3/18/20 | Rob Bailey-Millado

Posted on 03/18/2020 2:36:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker

They’re gonna fight for their right to party.

Thousands of American college students refuse to let the pesky coronavirus pandemic get in the way of their annual pilgrimage to Florida for spring break.

Ignoring repeated warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization about the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus, the masses showed up in Miami — only to find their good times hijacked by safety measures to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus that are taking effect.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the closure of all bars and nightclubs in the state for 30 days as of Tuesday evening — after college crews were spotted partying at Clearwater Beach. “A lot of students have just been congregating at the universities and doing things there, and that’s not something we want,” DeSantis said at a news conference Tuesday.

Resolute revelers in the city’s South Beach neighborhood, however, vowed to keep the party popping.

“If I get corona, I get corona,” Brady Sluder, a defiant party animal of indeterminate age from Ohio, told Reuters. “At the end of the day, I’m not going to let it stop me from partying.”

Launching at the peak of Miami’s tourist season, “social distancing” precautions will also see national movie theaters, gyms and other businesses shut down to discourage gatherings of more than 10 people, which the CDC warns could spread the virus. However, the governor stopped short of closing some of the beaches spring-breakers were partying on, WFLA reported.

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KEYWORDS: break; coronavirus; defy; lockdown; spring
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To: LibWhacker

These kids may be young but at least they have the American spirit that most in this country used to have. There was a time when the citizens wouldn’t shut the country down and allow the economy to crash while being obsessed with finding toilet paper and hand sanitizer while they get a preview of socialism. Good for these kids. At least some are actually expressing a right to do something.


41 posted on 03/18/2020 3:25:05 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America)
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To: HandyDandy

Wherewithal is wasted on the old.


42 posted on 03/18/2020 3:25:37 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: LibWhacker

They are not stupid or selfish. They intuitively know what the close-downers don’t — you don’t socially distance yourself due to fear of getting a sickness that is most likely to be serious only for people with preexisting conditions. They didn’t have to socially distance themselves for similar Obama-era diseases, so why should they do so now?


43 posted on 03/18/2020 3:26:23 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: freedomlver

I wish more FReepers would read posts like yours and think rationally. When you have a viral outbreak where one part of the population is at a high risk, the most effective course of action is to isolate and protect THEM — not impose restrictions that immobilize the population at large.


44 posted on 03/18/2020 3:26:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You gotta fight, for your right, to PARTY!!!!


45 posted on 03/18/2020 3:28:40 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: LibWhacker
‘This virus ain’t that serious’ said the college student while taking their last breath.
46 posted on 03/18/2020 3:29:22 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Maybe they’re smarter than the everyone else.

I'd bet the people in Gen Z have more common sense than the Millenials, although that may not be saying much.

47 posted on 03/18/2020 3:30:29 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: George from New England
I say salt air and salt water is possibly good.

The vitamin D they develop from the sunlight is good for immunity. Running around on the beach they'll have lots of exposure to sun on their skin.

48 posted on 03/18/2020 3:34:33 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Professional

Hawaii Gov. David Ige calls for 30-day suspension of visitors to Hawaii.

Yep, they’re gonna hurt.


49 posted on 03/18/2020 3:36:57 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: LibWhacker

Can’t fix stupid.


50 posted on 03/18/2020 3:38:19 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: LibWhacker

smart kids... who knew?


51 posted on 03/18/2020 3:40:29 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Maybe they’re smarter than the everyone else.”

Not. A. Chance.


52 posted on 03/18/2020 3:40:36 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: LibWhacker
This virus ain’t that serious

Sounds like an educated yute.

53 posted on 03/18/2020 3:42:34 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: LOC1

They aren’t giving up liberty for safety and ending up with neither though


54 posted on 03/18/2020 3:45:24 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Professional

55 posted on 03/18/2020 3:47:40 PM PDT by knarf
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To: TomServo

56 posted on 03/18/2020 3:47:58 PM PDT by knarf
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To: TomServo

Why would anyone “want” to piss over a bread truck? Ha ha.


57 posted on 03/18/2020 3:49:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Because it was there.


58 posted on 03/18/2020 3:51:53 PM PDT by TomServo (See my tagline)
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To: knarf

Lots of subshine and beer over two or three straight days is believed to prohibit the entry of virus into the body.


59 posted on 03/18/2020 3:52:25 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: DoodleDawg
Can’t fix stupid.

College-age people avoiding human contact to wait out a disease that is only marginally worse than the common flu would be stupid.

Government at all levels shutting down half the economy in reaction to that disease would be stupid.

60 posted on 03/18/2020 3:54:08 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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