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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: 3, Informative) by driverless on Thursday March 26 2020, @01:13PM (1 child)

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday March 26 2020, @01:13PM (#975845)

    As is the term "OK Boomer", which is millennials living up to their reputation for laziness by being too lazy to think up anything useful to say. Perfect self-parody.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @05:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @05:36PM (#975987)

    "OK Boomer" is a way of them dismissing out of touch suggestions and comments of older people. The Boomers grew up during a time when there was a connection between how hard you work and what the compensation was. For the most part, working harder now doesn't really get you much extra pay in most sectors. There's a few where that's the case, but in many jobs you get the same pay whether you're lazy or highly motivated. If you are highly motivated, the only way to parlay that into additional money is by switching jobs regularly looking for additional pay. Businesses don't typically invest in their employees, certainly not at the rate they used to and as a result you get what you pay for.

    The failure of the Boomers to acknowledge that they burned the social contract that indicates that if you do things that are good for society at large, that society at large is going to make sure that you're taken care of, is a huge part of the problem. Yes, there was poverty back then, but the problem was being addressed for a period and there wasn't as much ability to do anything about it as there is now. Bezos alone, with his fortune, could solve homelessness in America and world hunger and still have billions of dollars let. That wasn't the case back when Boomers were starting out. The money that Bezos made would largely have been paid out to workers the ones actually generating the wealth.