Half-time was the best time to go plague shopping

My hunch that Trader Joe’s Tampa would be a ghost town last night during Super Bowl LV’s half-time paid off. It was the perfect time to make a quick but important grocery run, as you can see from the photo I took while at the cashier (see above).

This run was important because there are better-than-even odds that we’ll experience a COVID-19 spike, thanks to Super Bowl superspreader gatherings like the one in the picture below, taken in Ybor City on Saturday night…

…and covered in the following articles:

• Washington Post — Thousands of maskless Tampa fans flooded the streets, celebrating the Super Bowl win while risking a superspreader event
• New York Times — In Tampa, Super Bowl Celebrations Bring Superspreader Concerns
• WFTS Tampa Bay — Tampa crowds, dance parties spark superspreader concerns over Super Bowl weekend
• Medscape — Superspreader Sunday: The Super Bowl With COVID Variants Afoot

My advice: Be particularly careful over the next couple of weeks, because a lot of people were careless over the past couple of days.