Coronavirus? Which coronavirus? The party in Miami Beach never ends

Miami Beach Coronavirus? Which coronavirus?

That’s what Miami Beach’s thousands of tourists and locals seem to think, who enjoy the beach, partying in nightclubs, and the atmosphere on the streets where many forget that Florida is having its worst days since the pandemic began. coronavirus.

With or without COVID-19, the usual wildlife of the popular Ocean Drive boardwalk meanders with their half-naked bodies and their usual there is no mask to soften.

One of those contributing to this buzz is Brazilian Silvio Maraca’s group of friends, who traveled to enjoy the good weather and the Miami Beach party, without fear of catching it or infecting it.

In his case, he says in conversation with Efe, without a mask of course, it’s because the illness has already passed and he tested negative before boarding the plane to Miami.

Regarding not covering his mouth, he explains that since the police only ‘threaten’ to issue a fine, without going overboard, and only if one gets very close to them without a mask, it is just as easy if the agents don’t approach and keep a philosophy that many seem to follow in Miami Beach: “The pleasure of the moment is worth more than the possible punishment.

Night parties

And it is that tourists and locals shamelessly brag about breaking the rules, and many upload to their social networks examples of those moments of glee that health authorities fear will later become the drama of themselves, a family member or a stranger. . with which they encounter if they may already be infected.

As demonstrated by hip-hop singer Tyga, who hosted a party at a Miami Beach nightclub last New Year’s Eve and then uploaded a video of the traditional countdown to Instagram ushering in the New Year in a busy location and where they were no doubt not very rigorous when it came to keeping a distance of two meters between the tens of people present.

And Tyga is still partying and this Saturday added another at the Story nightclub in Miami Beach, one of the main cities in Miami-Dade County, most affected by COVID-19 in Florida, hitting its record number this week. fallen broke. positive with 17,192 in one day, well above the 15,300 recorded in the worst of the first wave last summer.

Without fear

But that little bit seems to scare hikers on Lincoln Road, Española Way and Ocean Drive, even as the much more contagious British variant of the Florida coronavirus was discovered in a young man in incubation period.

And all this despite the fact that there is a curfew in effect from midnight to 6 a.m. and a mask or the like must be used in public places and social distance must be maintained, under penalty of receiving a possible fine.

But the Venezuelans living in Santiago de Chile, Albert Chacón and Juan Manuel Torres, who visit Miami Beach, say few police officers have seen streets where “half the people” go without masks.

“Compared to the security measures in Chile, Miami Beach is far behind,” says Chacón, while Torres believes that although the “fear” of becoming infected is always present, one must “learn” to live with the virus, because Anders would be self-aware about enjoying the good times means that you ‘cease to live’ in life.

And Miami-Beach is not an isolated case and it is a scenario that has been repeated in other tourist cities in Florida, be it on the coast like Fort Lauderdale or Tampa or Orlando where several theme parks had to close their doors this week. minutes after their opening because they had already reached the maximum allowed capacity.

Nothing seems to scare those betting on the good weather and fun of Florida without apparently attaching too much importance to the fact that, after California and Texas, Florida is the third most affected state in the United States, the country with the highest number of cases worldwide level.

Keep the party going.