Posted on 07/03/2020 3:42:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said.
The parties are being held in Tuscaloosa, and infected people are urged to attend so others can intentionally contract the virus, City Council member Sonya McKinstry told CNN. She said she heard about the trend from fire officials.
"We thought that was kind of a rumors at first. We did some research, not only do the doctors' offices confirm it, but the state confirmed they also had the same information," she said. During a presentation to the City Council this week, Fire Chief Randy Smith also said young people in the city are throwing parties with a payout if they catch coronavirus, McKinstry said.
The first person confirmed by a doctor to have coronavirus after the exposure wins the money made off the ticket sales, she said. Over the past few weeks, there have been several parties in the city and surrounding areas, and probably more that officials don't know about, she added. "It makes me furious," McKinstry said. "Furious to the fact that something that is so serious and deadly is being taken for granted. ...you could contract the virus and take it home to your parents or grandparents."
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Quarantine grandparents. Let everyone else have a life.
Agreed. Let the “youngsters go get infected and avoid their grandparents for the few weeks or months for them to get through it.
Like they ever visit or call anyway.
My take is that old folks have self quarantined pretty much already. Some are very susceptible and others much less so.
I’m old and do not feel susceptible. My wife however is a different matter. The same is true of the many old folks I know. They are sticking pretty much close to home in a location pretty much open for business as usual.
This is a actually a good thing. Herd immunity will be built up even faster.
This is a fake crisis with a fake solution that’s worse than the fake crisis, and they’re exploiting old people for nefarious purposes.
Lol!
You people see nothing, and understand less.
But let's not forget...as late as Feb 29th, Fauci said "don't worry about it...Just go on with your life.
Remember also that it was mentioned in the State of the Union.
And let's not forget Nancy inviting everyone to China Town.
Most infuriating is the way they deliberately exposed nursing homes to the virus. In Michigan they actually housed a 20-year-old infected sociopath in a nursing home, and he was posting footage to Instagram of himself beating on them.
Reality says otherwise.
Old people make up the overwhelming numbers of virus related deaths. Frailty is the death factor
Younger folks are presently being shown to have the disease but apparently shake it off with no hospitalization or death. Kids apparently are seemingly immune
You are correct. Exposing the nursing homes was criminal. The Governor of New York should be prosecuted as an acessory to murder
So the odds of dying in a car crash is higher than dying from COVID-19 for those under 50.
Ha ha.
This year it is all out of concern, of course.
In this case being less cautious than their frightened-into-inaction elders could be a good thing.
‘You people see nothing, and understand less.’
oh, look; the king of the head up the ass cartoons speaks...
Throw away all masks, and as long as “real positives” are defined as they originally were, nothing will change...we’re well past this. The commies, like in Austin, change definitions.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_7xzjd583uo
Instead of wanting Brad Pitt to play him in the movies, he now wants Joe Pesci.
Oh and you are the only expert on the matter. Sorry doc you are in the minority of physicians as well.
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