Should Florida Cancel Spring Break?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Restaurants are reopening sidewalks are coming back to life. America is |
| 0:37.0 | shaking off a long COVID winter. But in Miami Beach, you might not even know a pandemic |
| 0:42.9 | had happened. It is the start of another spring break weekend in South Florida, Miami Beach, |
| 0:48.1 | which has grabbed headlines for out of control crowds for weeks, is bracing for another influx |
| 0:53.2 | of tourists and possibly trouble. What I've been observing the last few weeks is a lot |
| 0:59.6 | of people crowding on Ocean Drive, which is the main strip full of Art Deco hotels parallel |
| 1:06.6 | to the beach. Veronica Zaragovia is a reporter with WLRN, the public radio station for Miami |
| 1:12.7 | and South Florida. It's been really crowded, but for much of this time, it's been peaceful, |
| 1:18.5 | it's a lot of people that perhaps would raise your eyebrows because of the potential for |
| 1:24.4 | the coronavirus to spread. In fact, Veronica lives within walking distance of Ocean Drive. |
| 1:30.0 | She says locals in Miami are mostly used to the partying. Everybody who lives in Miami |
| 1:35.4 | Beach has to have a tolerance for tourism because that is the lifeline of this city and |
| 1:41.8 | it's a city that welcomes. But this year Veronica says something changed. I have spoken |
| 1:50.0 | to locals who felt that this was just, it was too much. There have been businesses that |
| 1:57.2 | shut down, that they didn't feel that their patrons or the staff would be safe. Even |
| 2:03.4 | businesses used to serving Routing Partiers were saying what was going on in South Beach |
| 2:07.9 | was just too much for them. One of them, the Clevelander, is a party venue that's extremely |
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