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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: 2, Interesting) by crafoo on Thursday March 26 2020, @02:22PM (7 children)
Well, who can really blame the young kids. Collectively, the boomers have instituted some of the worst, most destructive policies possible. I get that they were just voting their own self-interest and rationalizing it away. Everyone does that. They were just very efficient and effective about it due to the size of their voting block and their solidarity in fucking over the younger generations.
On an individual level, boomers are the most narcissistic, fart-sniffing, greedy fucks you will ever meet.
A few less is quite frankly a blessing to the world.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:43PM (3 children)
When did that happen? I can't think of a single election where I had a candidate that I really approved of who also hadn't deceived me. Occasionally in the primaries, but they never won.
These days when people supporting a cause I favor ask for my support, I'm quite cynical about the honesty of those they are backing. The best argument for Biden is that he's not Trump. And conversely. And that's a really shitty argument. And people who say "You should vote for candidate X because she's a woman" should have their head examined. I don't have anything against women as candidate, but I also don't have anything in favor of it. If you say "because she support birth control" I've got grounds to support or oppose her. If you say "because she's a woman" I just think you're a different kind of bigot.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @06:38PM (2 children)
This 1000%
Most of the last presidential elections have come down to choosing the lesser of two evils.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @12:21AM (1 child)
Reagan was the lesser evil? Bush W? Etc.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 27 2020, @02:58AM
It's reasonable that different people would disagree over which was the lesser evil. And since only one ever wins there's no objective measure, even if the different people agreed one what actions were good.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @04:14PM (1 child)
Like the greatest improvement in the human condition ever? I think a big part of the problem is that people aren't seeing the trees, much less the forest. There is this delusion that the world is a terrible place based on confirmation bias.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @12:26AM
No no, see - Catholic priests weren't abusing boys for 2 thousand years, only the last 20. Things suddenly got much worse.
Income inequality was also invented recently. The King (who was appointed divinely) saw to it that everyone was given a fair shot. Much worse now.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @05:52PM
and they've been shamelessly kidnapping and caging the younger generations with their seditious drug war. they are lucky they are not drug out of their nursing homes and shot in the street and left to rot there as a warning.