It is called a plague rave. Tulum in Mexico, Zanzibar in Tanzania. A party in a corner of the world in which coronavirus regulations barely exist. Superstar DJs, huge crowds of unmasked, mainly white hedonists, flown in and eschewing social distancing.
Locals provide the services, the plague ravers leave what they brought behind. Invariably, the nation is in a far worse state than when they found it.
Mexico had the third highest death rate in the world when Tulum, two hours from Cancun, began hosting its plague raves. Within two weeks of the New Year events, Mexico recorded its worst week yet during the pandemic: 7,000 dead and record infections.
The Euro 2020 final at Wembley could see the arrival of some 2,500 VIPs without quarantine
Another Tulum party - an 'awareness' festival called Art With Me hosting 50 wellness activities and 40 acts, plus 20 food and wine 'happenings' - is now regarded as a super-spreader event.
But it still wasn't as bad as what unfolded in Tanzania. On the island of Zanzibar, governmental ignorance met international selfishness to create a catastrophe the ramifications of which may soon be felt.
The party started with President John Magufuli declaring his country Covid-free last June. He refused to accept foreign vaccines and said citizens should pray the illness away. It helped that Tanzania stopped officially recording Covid cases.
In January, the US Center for Disease Control designated Tanzania a level three country and advised against entry.
There had been a steady increase in Tanzanian travellers testing positive on arrival at foreign destinations.
In March, Tanzania was placed on level four, the highest grade, indicating a very high level of Covid-19. That same month, President Magufuli died. Officially from long-standing heart conditions, although opponents blamed Covid.
It is against this backdrop that the plague DJs arrived. There were raves in February and the superclub Amnesia, from Ibiza, co-promoted one taking place from March 5 to 19. Zanzibar, it was said, was 'not a high-risk country' and there was 'no need for quarantine upon return'.
So what happened next? Later that month, the World Health Organisation reported the most complex strain of coronavirus yet, found in three travellers from Tanzania to Angola. It had 31 amino acid mutations and the WHO is still investigating the consequences of this spread.
'The source country, Tanzania, has a largely undocumented epidemic and few public health measures are in place to prevent spread within and out of the country,' read the report.
The entitled plague ravers and the plague DJs had long gone, perhaps spreading as they went.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin looks set to get his way after threatening to move the final
And this brings us to UEFA, the plague ravers of global football. The ones who appear to have successfully bullied this Government to accept 2,500 VIPs, some from red zone countries, without quarantine for the final stages of the European Championship.
If the Government did not acquiesce, the threat was to move the semi-finals and final to Budapest.
Hungary has the second highest per capita death rate from Covid of any country in the world, after Peru, but Prime Minister Viktor Orban permits full stadiums, so UEFA and their plague-raving VIPs couldn't care. They get in, they get out, no masks and no quarantines. Back to Zanzibar, for all we know.
And what is their mitigation? There is none. The plague DJs, as selfish as they might be, are part of an industry that has been destroyed by Covid restrictions. Clubs, live events, musicians, DJs, all have struggled with little end in sight.
The harshest judgment on those who have broken out to play to crowds of the entitled jet set or just fruitcake anti-vaxxers who think Bill Gates wants to plant a microchip in our brains, has come from within. From DJs, musicians, agents, promoters, who have sat patiently and waited for this curse to be over.
They are the ones naming names on social media, compiling lists, advocating the exclusion of plague DJs from a planned demonstration on June 26 in support of reopening clubs.
UEFA, then, have no such excuse. No justification. They have been through none of the equivalent hardship.
The Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary has already gone ahead with hosting two games at a full capacity of 60,000 people in attendance
Their tournament has gone ahead, pretty much as planned. They have their broadcast revenue, their sponsorship revenue, they have dragged fans all over Europe - Baku to Seville is 2,960 miles - when anyone can see mass transit should be avoided.
And now, asked to conform to understandable restrictions around national borders, they threaten this? Worse, the Government apparently feel that not to compromise might harm England's chances of hosting the 2030 World Cup, for which they will need UEFA's support.
Not this one again. All the pathetic deals this country has made, all the crooks it has embraced, the sticky hands it has shook, the bowing and scraping to men no more worthy than dirt on the shoe, and where has it got us?
Behind Russia, behind Qatar as suitable World Cup hosts.
And we're falling for this deception? That we let UEFA's plague ravers march through Heathrow unchallenged, because Aleksander Ceferin will bestow his fabulous patronage upon us at voting time?
Stuff that. Better we deport him, and all his blazered mates, rather than let one person in without the protocols that would apply to any foreign visitor or returning British national.
Who do they think they are, these people? The football family? It's a joke. There will be family members who have never seen a match that isn't a final, that might have attended three games their entire life, each one ending in fireworks and the presentation of a trophy.
Capacity has been capped at Wembley so far by the UK government as they tackle Covid-19
UEFA protect them because they represent the money. They hide behind a desire to serve the fans but if that was genuine no big match would be taken to Baku, and Tottenham and Liverpool wouldn't have got just 34,000 tickets between them for the 2019 Champions League final, played in a 63,500 capacity stadium.
There were just 4,000 tickets sold to locals, and the rest? The football family. A staggering 25,500, 40.15 per cent of the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid.
So that is what is on UEFA's mind when they look at Budapest's Puskas Arena at full 67,215 capacity.
They don't acknowledge the danger, they don't consider the message in rewarding a country where fans carry racist and homophobic banners and attitudes to the game.
They just see a lucrative plague rave with all their entitled mates on the floor and
