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posted by martyb on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the pride-goeth-before-a-fall dept.

A group of young adults held a coronavirus party in Kentucky to defy orders to socially distance. Now one of them has coronavirus:

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.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @12:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @12:25PM (#975825)

    I think Trump has a higher support among the older generation than the younger, yes? So in the abstract, I'll be pleased when the Boomers are gone. But I have parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their friends that are Boomers that I do care about. I have a hard time believing there are that many Millennials that really don't give a damn about any single person anywhere over the age of 50.

    Really, I blame this on a failure of education. One of the things American schools fail to do is teach kids strategic thinking - or financial planning, or basic internet security, or dozens of other practical skills. "There's an old white asshole couple down the block and every fifth word out of their mouths is blaming 'niggers' for something. I can't wait until they are both dead." Yeah, I get it, but the same disease that might kill them is probably going to hit everyone in your family over the age of 50 pretty hard.

    But I think teaching kids strategic thinking will be unpopular in American schools forever, because if you start to think critically about the big picture you'll realize a lot sooner how hopelessly corrupt Washington politics are, how most of the big churches are just money grabs, etc... Politicians, bureaucrats, and religious leaders would fight any education program that undermines their power.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday March 27 2020, @03:20PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday March 27 2020, @03:20PM (#976342) Journal

    Thomas Jefferson wrote about the priest being one of the prime opponents of education and progress. And it's absolutely because critical thinking is a threat to their racket. Of course they don't put it that way, they use dog whistles and coded language, because they know it's not socially acceptable to be too blatantly anti-science. Indeed, Creationism/Intelligent Design is an attempt to co-opt the trappings of science to dress their nonsense in a veneer of rationality. Yes, big churches are money grabs.

    One of the things I find a bit puzzling about the corruption in any capital, really, is the sort of weird selfishness on behalf of others. If you personally are comfortable, why risk your neck on yet another dirty deal so someone else can benefit? Is it the potential for blackmail that spurs such efforts? That is, if you don't keep wheeling and dealing, your supplicants will turn on you? Tiger by the tail.... But I think other explanations are more likely. Like, that some politicians get a kick, a thrill, out of breaking the rules and getting away with it. Many politicians are also just plain stupid.

    Anyway, I have hope. Research in psychology is laying bare ever more of these oddities and irrational aspects of human nature. And, same as video recording finally exposed police as prone to lying and abusing their power, when for years all that many of us had were rumors and anecdotes, I think video recording will also finally out these fake priests so greatly that their power will be forever vastly reduced. Perhaps they should have tried concealment, to prolong their power. Instead, many leapt for the cameras, becoming televangelists. Any time you want to see notorious Moral Majority televangelists blame 9/11 on God being angry with America for tolerating various "sinful" behaviors such as premarital sex and homosexuality, you can run that video down quick, with a search or two of the Internet.

    Education is very important. A lot of things are badly taught, but there too I hope research in education is discovering better methods. Also, there's convincing the hardheads of stuff we figured out 50 or 100 years. Consider the progress. Corporal punishment is pretty much gone. In elementary writing class a century ago, teachers used to use a heavy wooden ruler to whack students' writing hands whenever they made a mistake. When I was in elementary school, they brought back corporal punishment on a sort of trial basis. The teachers were all given paddles that were basically a bare wood, double-sized ping-pong paddle. Some kept the paddles out of sight behind their desks. Others hung them prominently on the wall. The experiment was a huge failure and a farce. Many of the female teachers couldn't swing the paddles hard enough to hurt, and the students would mock them with obviously fake cries of pain. Or they'd pervert the sorry affair with sexual innuendo, suggesting the teacher was into S&M, and who knows, maybe some were. To counter that, a new rule was introduced. Boys could only be beaten by male teachers, and girls only by female teachers. We also had a principal whose favorite tactic when sent naughty children was to use a big knife to noisily and violently open a letter or two, try to let the kids sweat while he read (or pretended to read) the letters and look Very Important, then point with the knife at each child in turn, to demand explanations. Anyway, despite frequent backsliding of that sort, education has progressed.