Florida nightlife is going wild and college students refuse to stop the party even as the Delta

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

variant of the coronavirus rips through the state

On a recent Saturday night in July, the vibrations of EDM music pulsating from bars and nightclubs along Atlantic Avenue drifted into the palm fronds and sliced through the humid Florida air.

In the heart of Palm Beach County, a throng of 20-somethings snaked down the block outside The Office, a local nightlife venue in Delray Beach, poised to elbow their way toward the crowded bar and order rounds of shots.

Across the road at Taverna Opa, another late-night party scene, a DJ spun some tracks to a crowd of dozens as belly dancers stood on top of wooden tables and swerved through the air.

During the worst surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida hotspots like these have counted on the loyalty of one oftentimes carefree constituency: local college students who, come Saturday night, are ready to get lit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-nightlife-going-wild-college-181311366.html

When you're young you think you're indestructible. Some may find out they're not the hard way.

[LisaL]

1. No wonder their covid cases are going through the roof.

NT

[WHITT]

3. FloriDUH

Largest number of cases since the BEGINNING of the pandemic, and the governor sez no restrictions, no masks, no mandates.

Oh Ronnie, you're goin' down with the ship.

[obamanut2012]

20. ChicagDUH

Or maybe you missed the insane images from Chicago this weekend? They could ahve pulled the music festival permits but didn't.

[IL Dem]

24. At least they're trying to mitigate the risks.

Here are the guidelines for attendance there:

https://www.lollapalooza.com/safety

And some news coverage of it.

https://abc7chicago.com/lollapalooza-2021-vaccine-requirement-saturday/10922695/

[WHITT]

28. Yes

They were requiring proof of vaccination to gain entrance. I saw video of a guy at a checkpoint yelling to people in lines that needed to show their vaccination cards. Now, how many were counterfeit is another matter.

[Cetacea]

27. +1000

[SoCalDavidS]

2. They'll Be Fine

They'll bring Covid home to their Unvaxxed Parents, and they're the ones who will die.

[viva la]

4. Today almost half the nation's Covid deaths were in Florida

And about 40% of all the new cases.

[lagomorph777]

14. So DeSatan's plan is working perfectly.

I'm not sure what the next step is, after killing off hundreds of thousands of his voters.

[roamer65]

5. "Captain, icebergs dead ahead."

“Who cares? We are unsinkable.”

[DemocraticPatriot]

13. Ironically, the Titanic probably would not have been sunk, if

they had continued their course and hit the iceberg head-on, due to the ship's construction incorporating 16 watertight compartments (she could survive even if 4 of them were completely flooded)...

Instead, they tried to turn too late, sideswiping the berg and tearing a 300-foot gash in the side of the ship below the waterline, causing flooding in the front 5 or 6 compartments...


(I was just re-reading Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember" on the sinking of that 'unsinkable ship'. Great book!)

[PCIntern]

19. He spoke ar my school when I was in seventh grade

He was an amazing speaker.

[bahboo]

6. I did a lot of dumbass shit when I was in college...

I can say with confidence, I wouldn't be doing this...

[dweller]

7. 🤔

✌🏻

[lagomorph777]

15. Silver lining. Well, Blue lining.

[Scrivener7]

8. Yeah... that'll stop soon enough.

[Runningdawg]

9. All you can do now is stay out of the way until the die-off is complete

[stillcool]

10. Who goes to college in July

in Palm Beach County?

[babylonsister]

11. Local college students

probably live there.

[JI7]

16. I don't think it means they are currently taking classes. Just that these are college students on

vacation .

[obamanut2012]

21. Florida Atlantic, Palm Beach Atlantic, Palm Beach State, Lynn University

I think I got all of them.

They all have summer sessions, and they are mainly local kids attending summer sessions ie commuters.

[stillcool]

23. Yeah...I lived there for 5 years

can't imagine going to Florida for vacation in the summer, and don't recall any large universities at all. There was one I vaguely recall somewhere near the airport(?), and a park(?).. but that was then. Guess things have changed.

[obamanut2012]

26. FAU has been there since 1961

PBSC was in the 30s, and I know Lynn and Palm Beach Atlantic were founded around the same time as FAU. Nothing at all by PBI I can think of.

[Mariana]

12. "When you're young you think you're indestructible."

Look at the messages they've been getting from their elders. They've been told for many months that they are at very low risk of severe consequences from Covid-19, and were therefore pretty much sent to the back of the line for the vaccines. Their governor tells them there's no need to take any precautions, and often their local officials, their parents, their teachers and their preachers tell them the same. This was entirely predictable.

[smirkymonkey]

17. I can't believe there was a time in my life that I actually thought that was fun.

And even then, only like once or twice a year. I would still go out to bars and parties, but I wouldn't be downing shots and partying my brains out. I did think I was always safe and indestructible and it was stupid. There were so many times I could have been in real trouble and I just never gave it a second thought. It scares me when I think back upon how stupid my friends and I were.

Now I am completely paranoid and if I go out for dinner or something I never stay out past 9:30, travel w/ a mask and I take an Uber or Lyft right to my door. I took too many chances when I was younger and I am not willing to tempt fate any more. I am leaving my apt. as little as possible and when I do, I have started wearing a mask again. I am vaccinated, but I really don't even want to get sick if I can avoid it.

[róisín_dubh]

18. My university is not requiring vaccines...

and masks are "required" if one is unvaxxed...but we can't ask about status. This Fall semester is going to be a fucking shambles.

[MineralMan]

22. Oh, it's not just Florida. Not at all.

College kids are in their late teens and early 20s. They consider themselves to be indestructible and immune to all diseases. So, they continue to do college kid things, no matter what. The result is endemic STDs and ample exposure to whatever other communicable diseases are circulating at any time.

I remember those days. Long, long ago. Nothing bad could happen to me, I believed.

So, they gather in large groups, drink too much, take whatever drugs are en vogue at the time, and look for partners for sex wherever they can be found. Thinking too much is hard, and depressing, to boot. So, they don't bother with that much, except during finals week.

It's not just Florida.

[BSdetect]

25. Lack of common sense is no barrier to college admission.