Bride-To-Be Goes To Nightclub To Intentionally Catch Coronavirus Weeks Before Wedding

An Australian bride-to-be came up with a strange scheme to ensure she wouldn’t contract COVID-19 right before her much-awaited February wedding. The woman threw social distancing norms out of the window and intentionally tried to get herself infected, with a month to go before her big day.

“POV your wedding is in 6 weeks and you still haven’t had COVID,” read the caption of the clip posted by the woman, who goes by the username @maddysmart31 on TikTok, according to the New York Post.

The video showed that the woman chose a nightclub in Melbourne as the setting to catch the virus and get it over with.

“Catch COVID not feelings,” the woman on a mission declared in the title of her 15-second clip. The bride-to-be was seen hugging several men and women in the video and even exchanging drinks with others as part of her preemptive measures.

The video, which is currently not available on TikTok, racked up 121,000 views after it was shared online. The clip was posted just before the government announced indoor dance floors in the Australian state of Victoria will be shut down for everyone from Jan. 12 to keep the Omicron surge under control, according to the Hindustan Times.

On one hand, some TikTokers praised the engaged woman for the self-immunization tactic she came up with.

“Yasss!! Feb 5th bride and I feel this on so many levels,” said another soon-to-be-hitched woman, while another commenter wrote, “I feel you, sis.”

But on the other hand, several commenters pointed out the strategy certainly isn’t foolproof, especially when an individual can catch the virus more than once.

“Sucks to be a healthcare worker watching this,” said one commenter.

“I was so confused,” added “Love Island” Season 3 contestant, Ryan Reid.

Medical experts are warning the public against purposefully trying to catch the virus.

“You’d be crazy to try to get infected with this,” said Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, NBC Right Now Tri-Cities reported last week.

Dr. Murphy revealed people have asked him about exposing themselves and getting intentionally infected because they think that will be the end of the ordeal. But, Dr. Murphy said it’s impossible to know how one will be affected by the virus in the long run.

"You don’t know the long-term effects of the virus, even if you’ve been vaccinated," Murphy reportedly said in a school news release. "Some people are genetically predisposed to having the worse disease.”

“It’s like playing with dynamite,” the doctor added. Who needs that risk?"