The coronavirus pandemic is still going strong in 2021 -- in fact, there's a worse strain going around now -- but wild party scenes in several cities show many people just don't care.
The RedBar Brickell club in Miami stayed open and allowed patrons to party maskless much later than the mandatory closing time of midnight in South Beach over the New Year's weekend.
As you can see ... the hot spot was packed with celebrating revelers in tight quarters. Fact is Florida has few restrictions right now, but blowing off the few there are -- such as closing time -- shows many are ignoring the nearly daily record-breaking COVID numbers in the U.S.
JUST A REMINDER:
— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) January 3, 2021
If you are from
• San Francisco
• Santa Clara County
• Los Angeles County
... and you were at a series of dance parties in Puerto Vallarta last week,
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO QUARANTINE FOR 10 DAYS UPON ARRIVAL BACK HOME. pic.twitter.com/rvrL0tikT6
FL ain't special, though ... irresponsible celebrations ringing in 2021 also went down in Puerto Vallarta with massive dance parties and fireworks over Las Vegas created large gatherings on the Strip.
And, as we reported, residents living on the Isle of Man gathered as per usual on New Year's Day to take a dip in freezing cold water ... with no COVID precautions in place.
Though the small U.K. island has done better than most of the rest of the world with coronavirus, it has recently reported new cases. The painful point is ... all this kinda behavior means this pandemic won't go away anytime soon.