It turns out that living for the moment during a coronavirus pandemic isn’t such a great idea — especially when your words make you the viral face of ignorant young people on spring break.
Brady Sluder, the spring breaker who infamously shrugged off the threat of COVID-19 during a TV interview last week, has apologized for the comments that put him in so many people’s crosshairs on social media. “If I get corona, I get corona,” Sluder said at the time. “At the end of the day, I’m not going to let it stop me from partying.” He was among tens of thousands of young people who descended on Miami for spring break, despite widespread efforts around the world to practise social distancing and slow the spread of the coronavirus.