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March 22, 2021, 2:01 pm
The internet is getting serious “this is why we can’t have nice things” from a video of a man in Miami, Florida waving a full-size U.S. flag in hair and makeup styled to look like the Joker from Batman and yelling “COVID is over, baby!”
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He then “makes it rain” by throwing a fistful of of cash into the air before vigorously waving the flag, shirtless and in sweat pants, in perhaps the best 20-second representation of America that has ever existed.
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You might also notice that the COVID Joker is surrounded by maskless young people in close contact with one another because once again it’s time for Spring Break during a pandemic. The partying among people who apparently think that COVID-19 is “over” in spite of the U.S. still clocking around 50,000 new cases per day forced the city of Miami to declare an emergency and issue a city-wide curfew on Saturday.
The curfew was set for 8 pm and bridges into Miami Beach were closed at 10 pm as young people continued to party without regard to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions against large gatherings and not wearing masks. SWAT teams in riot gear were deployed to try and disperse the huge crowds in the streets
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“You saw the photos from last night,” said said City Manager Raul J. Aguila at a press conference. “It was quite simply overwhelming. It looked like a rock concert: You couldn’t see pavement and you couldn’t see grass.”
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber compared the situation with the Spring Breakers to being under siege.
“It has felt at times that the city is under a level of siege, simply from the volume of people that are coming,” he said last Wednesday as young people continued to arrive and party.
Although new cases and daily death numbers have fallen significantly from the peak of the latest and most devastating pandemic surge, they have settled to levels twice as high as those seen during the first surge around April 2020. Public health experts have warned that the ending of school and business restrictions as well as the introduction of new COVID-19 variants into the population could result in a new surge, and case numbers in some parts of the country are on the rise again.
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With this knowledge handy, well-informed viewers of the COVID Joker are not impressed.
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*First Published: March 22, 2021, 2:01 pm
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