Nearly two years into the pandemic, it is well known that the coronavirus has a disobliging tendency to upend carefully laid plans — be they birthday parties, major exams or the Olympics. Now, a bride-to-be in Australia adopted a novel approach to ensure that Covid doesn’t spoil her big day. But not everyone is impressed.

Maddy Smart posted a video titled ‘Catch Covid not feelings’ on her TikTok account. The 15-second clip shows her hugging multiple men and women at a club in Melbourne, and even swapping drinks with some, in a bid to contract Covid-19.

“POV your wedding is in 6 weeks and you still haven’t had Covid,” she said in the accompanying caption.

The video soon went viral, garnering over 121,000 views in a single day before the account was made private. The reason for going underground? While some praised the brief-to-be’s unconventional approach to safeguard her wedding day, the majority took a less than kind view of her antics.

“Sucks to be a healthcare worker watching this,” a TikTok user commented.

Other TikTok users slammed the woman for flouting Covid restrictions at a time when Australia is dealing with skyrocketing caseloads. The country recorded more than 147,000 fresh cases on Thursday, with net new hospital admissions and people admitted to intensive care are at their highest since the pandemic began.

A few others found Smart’s wedding-saving scheme a bit hare-brained given that with the Omicron variant, breakthrough infections are common among fully vaccinated people as well as those who have contracted Covid before.

According to a study by Imperial College London that was based on UK Health Security Agency and National Health Service data, the Omicron variant is five times more likely to reinfect individuals who have already had Covid than Delta.

The video was posted a day before the government in the province of Victoria, where Melbourne is, introduced tighter Covid restrictions, including the closure of all indoor dance floors except for weddings.

Australia has recorded more than 1.3 million cases since the start of the pandemic, with more than half in the past week, driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus.