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Home / Health Conditions / Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout / Florida Spring Breakers ‘Have Forgotten that There’s a Pandemic!’

Florida Spring Breakers ‘Have Forgotten that There’s a Pandemic!’

 

Miami Beach is facing its’ annual visit from spring breakers despite the country remaining under restrictions because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

Because most pandemic restrictions have been lifted in Florida, people are coming with an “anything goes” mentality, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber told USA TODAY on Monday, after a weekend that started off with police in Miami Beach shooting pepper balls to disperse a crowd that had gathered around officers who were making an arrest. 

One of the officers body-slammed James Harrison, 19, of the Brooklyn borough of New York City, as he was being taken into custody, and the crowd became “extremely aggressive towards officers,” according to a copy of the police report. 

An officer fired pepper balls “due to the large, aggressive, unruly crowd and the immediate posing threats to officer safety,” the police report said.

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The Miami Beach Police Department made 163 arrests over the past seven days.

“It’s like a triple threat: We’ve got too many people, too many coming with a desire to go wild and we have the virus,” Gelber said. “It really poses a multifaceted peril for us.”

“I think it might be a little bit related to just people looking to let loose after being pent up, but some people are coming here with sort of an anything-goes mentality and even if it’s just a small percentage … it’s a small percentage of an enormous amount of people,” Gelber said, noting that flights to the city have been cheap and room rates are low and the city can’t fine tourists or residents for refusing to wear a face mask.

“I’ve been on Ocean Drive almost every day in the last week, and the number of people not wearing masks or just not bothering with any of the healthy practices is very disturbing,” he said. “An enormous number of people are coming our way, and many of them, if not most, seem to have forgotten that there’s a pandemic.”

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Gelber said that while the number of new positive COVID-19 tests daily has plateaued, the statistic remains high. And there is evidence, too, that more COVID-19 variants are present in Miami-Dade County.

According to the Florida Department of Health, new cases in the county are ranging between 800 and 1,900 since the beginning of the month. Covid Act Now, a nonprofit that analyzes COVID-19 data, categorizes the county as “very high risk” – the fourth-highest tier on its five-tier scale.

March 20, 2021 by Althea Ward-Curtis

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