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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @01:33PM (2 children)
"I love bullshitting with you guys at bars and hearing your war-stories"
If you mean WWII 'war-stories', then you are not speaking to boomers but rather the fathers of boomers because Boomers were born after WWII.
Boomers were even too young to serve in Korea in the 1950's.(Hawkeye, BJ, Winchester, Klinger, et al were not boomers)
The boomers' war was Vietnam, and even by the early 1970's a third of the boomers were too young to serve in that war.
By definition "baby boomers" are people born from 1946-1964, but the term has mutated into something that subjectively means 'any person who is much older than me'.
GenX is the only subsequent generation who knows who the real boomers are. They know boomers are old, really old, older than the hills and are aware that even the youngest Boomer today is beginning to look like Deforest Kelly's in his cameo on the premiere of ST:TNG.
Millenials think boomers are anyone over 45.
Z's think boomers are anyone over 30.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:54PM (1 child)
... have you been to a bar in the past, say, decade? Because you won't find a lot of WW2 vets there (or anywhere else but Boot Hill) these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @01:21AM
Yes and very soon you're going to start seeing fewer and fewer veterans that served during real wars as the Vietnam vets die off. And I do mean that, compared with what my dad and his cohort went through, the military personnel of this era have it easy. Short deployments and real ability to keep in touch with people back home. And the ability to put bodies back together in a way that wasn't even possible in the past. Sure, you do have people getting killed and dismembered, but not at anywhere near the rate that they used to be. Going to war during Vietnam was an extremely risky proposition and often compulsory.
It's been decades since any of our wars could be considered a benefit to society as the DoD and related industries are by far the biggest threat to our safety of any out there. The CIA creates the enemy and the DoD expands that as much as possible to justify funding defense at ludicrous levels.