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At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a "coronavirus party" with a group of young adults [...]
The partygoers intentionally got together "thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing, [...]
[...] the virus seems to be affecting young people in the United States more than it has in China. A report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that up to 20% of people hospitalized with coronavirus in the United States are between the ages of 20 and 44.
[...] "So far the demography definitely seems to be very different in the United States versus in other countries that saw this hit earlier,"
[...] In New York state, more than half of coronavirus cases -- 53% -- have been among young people between the ages of 18 and 49
From MSN:
Kentucky coronavirus party with group of young adults has left at least one person infected:
At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a "coronavirus party" with a group of young adults [...] The partygoers intentionally got together "thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing [...] "This is one that makes me mad," the governor said. "We have to be much better than that."
And...From Slate:
A group of Kentucky partygoers recently attended a "coronavirus party." The event, which appears to be a pandemic-themed soiree, as you might imagine, was not a civic-minded effort to promote social distancing practices and best hand-washing practices, but a slap in the face to everyone else's collective efforts to not kill our parents and grandparents. The party mocked the virus, and the coronavirus gods were angry. One of the twentysomething attendees of the ill-advised gathering in the midst of a national emergency tested positive for the virus Tuesday.
Maybe I'm too old to get it, but it seems to me somewhat unwise to do this.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @01:17AM (2 children)
A lot of the jobs that kids used to work are now being filled by adults. I had friends that delivered newspapers when I was in high school and now those are pretty much all done by adults driving cars, often in pairs. They just cover so much more ground than what a single highschooler on a bike can cover.
As far as the automation goes, we've created a ton of jobs just to give people things to do. Most service sector jobs exist for no particular reason other than we don't want a UBI that's enough to live on and we don't want to allow smaller businesses to exist. We would have far more people employed doing useful things if we didn't allow so much consolidation. I'm sure we will get to the point where there's legitimately no work for large numbers of people even though we have all our essentials handled, but at that point, you start paying people to engage in their hobbies and creating new moonshot efforts at new creations.
The status quo where we don't pay people enough to support themselves is the worst of all worlds. It's not fulfilling, but it's also not permitting time to do things that are fulfilling as these people are working multiple jobs in many cases. And, it doesn't even lead to the hope of self-sufficiency in the future either, as in many cases these are people working full time and needing government assistance to get by.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday March 27 2020, @12:36PM
Exactly. When it gets to the point that all you're doing is living to work, and suffering a great deal in that process, you have to start to question the point of the whole system with regard to the masses. Some people will say you keep doing it to raise children but in a world where their lives will be more of the same--or very likely considerably worse, you have to question that as well. Especially when breeding more humans is currently accelerating the damage to the planet and the fierce competition for land and resources.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @07:05PM
yep, all the retail jobs where i live are staffed with old women who ended up broke instead of young juicier women.