Update: beach gatherings have now been limited... but people are still out there.
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A bunch of idiot spring breakers in Miami were interviewed, and tried to explain why they're still not staying home.
One kid said there's no way he's scrapping his spring break, because he's been planning it for two whole months.
Two whole months?! Dang!
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.”