One 27-year-old vacationer, Corey Hannon, proclaimed on social media that he was recovering from COVID-19 while hitting the surf.
“Everyone knows I had COVID,” the 27-year-old fitness trainer and former flight attendant proclaimed in a short, since-deleted video that went viral after another user posted it to Twitter. “So go fuck yourself. I hope all of you get fucking COVID.”
P.J. McAteer, the managing director of the Fire Island Pines commercial district, condemned the “troubling images and videos”“We know masks are uncomfortable and aren’t fun,” McAteer said. “But we also know that being hooked up to a ventilator isn’t comfortable for fun either.” Hannon, McAteer said, would be banned from Fire Island’s bars and restaurants ― which are operating with 60% of their usual summer staff ― moving forward.Hannon walked back some of his remarks in a nearly eight-minute Facebook video on Sunday, calling himself a victim of “cancel culture” and apologizing for “the misinterpretation that I portrayed on my social media.”
“I am terribly sorry this happened,” he said. “I would never go out there and righteously infect people.” In a caption accompanying the video, Hannon said that his visit to Fire Island took place 12 days after he began feeling sick. He said he awaits his test results and has not been diagnosed with COVID-19., who tweeted his disapproval Monday.The videos over the weekend from Fire Island, the East Village and elsewhere say it all — there is COVID fatigue.
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