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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'It's frightening. It's insane': Fort Lauderdale bars packed with mask-less partygoers Photos
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-wharf-reopens-with-crowd-20201121-tbn5prnf2rbulkl7lopo4la2iu-story.html%3foutputType=ampClosed for most of 2020 because of the pandemic, The Wharf Fort Lauderdale reopened Friday night with crowds of mask-less young partygoers dancing, drinking and hanging out with no social distancing.
Pandemic? Videos and photos on social media from opening night show hundreds of young people jammed together drinking cocktails under a covered bar area. Almost all are without facemasks. A similar scene occurred Saturday night.
Its frightening. Its insane, said Dale Holness, Broward County Commissioner and former County Mayor. I expect people to be more conscious of the effect this disease is having on our lives.
Dr. Ralph Levy, who lives nearby, walked by The Wharf around 9 p.m. Friday and watched the scene in disbelief. As a doctor who has gone through this since March it was disheartening, he said. The place was packed, everybody was close together.
Doodley
(9,089 posts)about Covid.
Midnight Writer
(21,762 posts)Arne
(2,012 posts)Lay them out right on the bar and wheal in the ventilators.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)The vaccines will make a difference but if 250,000 a day are getting sick in the next few months, help will come too late for some.
Selfish, Ill informed fools will kill many.
Fucking asshats following Jim Jones Trump. Such a shame.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)while following all the precautions. Since they are young and have more to offer when well, they'll be given priority on the scale of usefulness to society compared to those with pre-existing conditions. Sad.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Bodies stacked on the curb outside their homes and apts, they would get that.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)Mariana
(14,856 posts)Families of all ages crowding into kitchens and dining rooms for Thanksgiving dinner. It's going to be a long winter.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Thanks folks for pissing all over the efforts of the doctors and nurses and other front line health care providers dealing with the packed hospitals and the bodies piling up. What's that in comparison to your Beastie Boys obsession of fighting for your right to party?
Towlie
(5,324 posts)
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Apparently it was a lot more crowded Friday night than in this photo.
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It's outside but I'm not sure that makes it any safer. I wouldn't want to be downwind of someone with the virus, even at a distance.
G_j
(40,367 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)and especially among people who move to Florida . It would be interesting to see people's views based on whether they were raised in Florida or moved there recently or later in their lives. I would bet the ones who moved there are more likely to have the selfish views than those who were raised there .
People who move there tend to be people who just care about having a good time for themselves without any regard for anyone or anything else.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)I just moved to Florida to care for my elderly mother and don't appreciate your characterization.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.