Saturday, March 13, 2021

Spring breakers flock to Covid hotspot Florida to party like it’s 2019

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A combination of students who feel they are at little risk and a governor who has lifted restrictions has experts worried, leading some schools to cancel spring break altogether

Covid-19 and spring break have never mixed well. Last March one young, shirtless man in Miami wearing a backwards-facing green cap went “viral” in the pre-pandemic sense when he told a reporter: “If I get corona, I get corona,” he said. “I’m not going to let it stop me from partying.”

A year later, even after Covid has killed over 500,000 Americans, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended against all travel, similar pictures and videos of spring breakers – no masks or social distancing in sight – are being seen again this year.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/spring-break-coronavirus-florida-universities
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Lauren Aratani



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