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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hmm. Is that like a chicken pox party? If they recover, they should be required to become plasma donors ,
“Maybe they’re smarter than the everyone else.”
they just might be ... i guess we’ll find out ...
Cower in your homes you f’ng slaves! Obey!
Baloney. Our ancestors came here and worked hard to CONTRIBUTE to our country.
These kids have never contributed anything to our country. They are taking a break from college, grabbing cheap airline tickets and partying.
They are the Selfish Generation.
Their parents aborted half their number for convenience.
Why would they care about the old?
Their way of saying eat, drink and be merry, eh?
The media is having a wet dream about all the panic they spread to the low informed”
Yeah In the USA the flu usually kills average about 40,000 each year, 80,000 in 2018.
So far they said 150 died from this corona virus . But we don't know if they were all 90 and already sick with something else etc. and most deaths 67 from one State Washington which i assume is King County Seattle area. Most states , most countries in the world show no deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
This is just news media scaremongering to shut down the economy. and then they can blame Trump for a bad economy at election time. People are letting the media scare them into accepting a socialist/marxist state.
Close to 3 million people die each year due to various causes in the USA but the media makes it seem like corona virus is the only thing that will kill people.
Darwin in action.
So far they said 150 died from this corona virus . Low number
In the USA the flu usually kills average about 40,000 each year, 80,000 in 2018. High number
So far the corona virus isn’t even as bad as the flu scaremongering ensues.
I agree with them.
“To be honest, everyone else has more of a chance getting killed going to and from work than by this disease.”
Thank you. I completely agree.
Georgia lost two women today, 42 and 69 years of age. Don’t know the medical history.
I agree. And the news media is destroying the economy for something less than the regular flu.
No, they aren’t treating the older ones. You are forgetting that the Netherlands was the first country to make assisted suicide legal. The Netherlands believes as Obama did that the old just need to take a pill.
Maybe the virus will take them down instead.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929
But the media makes it seem like the only thing you can die of is this corona virus. They said 150 died that's orders of magnitudes less than the regular yearly flu or even the common cold.
People don't realize that there are 331 million people in the USA and 7.8 billion in the world. 50 million people die in the world every year.
The news media is destroying the economy to get one man Trump defeated in the election.
It appears that some number of patients who are older than 50 are also being treated.
“They get it how the media is just spreading scaremongering the numbers prove it.”
I think you might be giving them more credit than they deserve. Granted, a few might be making an informed decision, but most of these yutes just want to party and don’t know (or care) what messages are being sent by authorities. Similar to those who surf in hurricane-churned waters.
I agree.
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