A 21-year-old who boasted on Instagram about not social distancing has caught the coronavirus.
Ireland Tate from Nashville told her Instagram followers she was probably not going to get infected, before the ironically inevitable happened.
"I'm aware that we're supposed to be self-quarantining and social distancing and all these things to like keep everyone safe," she grinned in her video. "I get it, cool, great."
"I just don't think that I'm gonna get the virus."
Days later, she got the virus.
"A little update on corona, isolated quarantine, and why staying home is important," she updated on Instagram, with a now-mask-wearing selfie. "If you hadn't heard by now I tested positive for COVID19 on Wednesday."
Ireland said she found out that someone she had been in contact with had the virus, but didn't know. She developed a "minor sore throat, but nothing to be concerned about," and decided to call the hospital to let them know the situation, as well as the fact she had asthma.
"They recommended that I come in to get tested, I really didn't think I had it but I went and got tested anyway," she wrote. "3 days later they called to tell me it was positive."
On Friday, America's coronavirus cases soared past 100,000, as it pulled away from the rest of the world with the most recorded. More than 1,500 people have died from COVID-19 in the US, still a relatively small number however-- five per million population -- when compared to many other countries.
