Miami man self-isolating after ‘quaranteam’ party for Guetta concert got ‘out of hand’
What’s the opposite of social distancing?
Assembling a so-called quaranteam, when you hang out with people who are believed to be negative for coronavirus. Quaranteaming is the actual action verb (or gerund, for grammar geeks).
One celebrity example of this non-CDC-recommended trend is when “Bachelorette” star Hannah Brown traveled to South Florida to hang with her runner-up Tyler Cameron and his pals in Jupiter.
Local entrepreneur Juan Patron was forced to apologize for a quaranteam party that got out of control at his pad on Saturday night.
Video circulating around the Internet shows Patron in a printed guayabera opening the door to a luxury pad at Icon Brickell, saying “Welcome to the party.”
Guests, mostly women, file into to the fancy waterfront apartment to watch David Guetta’s livestreamed concert for charity on the ground below. Partiers are seen lining up shoulder to shoulder, dancing and swaying to the music. Only one woman can be seen with a mask on.
Patron, who was born Juan David Cardenas Bocanegra in Cali, Colombia, later apologized for the event and posted a video to Only in Dade’s Instagram.
“In regards to the hype, I wanna say me and my friends, we have this quaranteam,” the so called marketing strategist says to the camera. “We stick together throughout the entire process.”
The former advertising exec, 29, says that some members of his quaranteam failed to “respect the rules” and invited others outside the crew. But Patron claims he “took action” and shut down the party when “things got out of hand.”
“I do apologize for sending the wrong message and will be self- quarantining for the next couple days,” said Patron, who has appeared as a talking head on Univision and CNN.
A call requesting comment from Icon Brickell went unanswered Monday.
All the action wasn’t just going on upstairs.
The lively, thumping COVID-19 relief concert was shut down by cops as crowds gathered below near One Miami Condo, flouting social distancing rules.
No arrests were made; officers just told residents to move along and maintain space six feet away from one another.
The crowds on the ground were “cooperative,” a Miami police spokesperson told the Miami Herald.
The bright spot: Guetta raised over $700,000 for four global charities including The World Health Organization, Feeding America, Feeding South Florida and the French Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris - Hôpitaux de France, organizers said.
To give to the cause, go to DavidGuetta.com/donate.
This story was originally published April 20, 2020 at 4:48 PM.
