'It's frightening. It's insane': Fort Lauderdale bars packed with mask-less partygoers Photos

[G_j]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-wharf-reopens-with-crowd-20201121-tbn5prnf2rbulkl7lopo4la2iu-story.html%3foutputType=amp

Closed 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.

“It’s frightening. It’s 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]

1. Too many young people don't give a fuck. My early-twenties niece says she's sick. Sick of hearing

about Covid.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Yep, I've seen the exact same attitude.

[Arne]

2. I bet that bar could be transformed into a Covid ward easily,

Lay them out right on the bar and wheal in the ventilators.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Or a morgue.

[bottomofthehill]

3. We are this fucking close to help

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]

4. The scary thing is, these people will take the space in hospitals from people who contracted COVID

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]

5. It isn't happening to them or their family, friends they don't care.

Bodies stacked on the curb outside their homes and apts, they would get that.

[Squinch]

6. Ignorant, selfish assholes.

[Stallion]

7. Apparently closed down today after citations

[Mariana]

9. Young people packing into bars, old people packing into churches.

Families of all ages crowding into kitchens and dining rooms for Thanksgiving dinner. It's going to be a long winter.

[gratuitous]

10. And, move the return to normalcy back another month

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]

12. That's a huge place! Here's a 360 shot taken in January, before the virus hit.

 
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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]

14. Not a mask in sight

[Dem4Life1102]

13. Captain?

[JI7]

15. This is why Trump Won Florida . This is the attitude that many people there have

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]

17. Painting with a pretty broad brush there aren't you.

I just moved to Florida to care for my elderly mother and don't appreciate your characterization.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

16. Nobody reads Poe anymore!

“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.”