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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) by HiThere on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:28PM (3 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:28PM (#975916) Journal

    I don't think it's building housing that gave them a bad name. It's building a centralized control structure that valued power over all else. That wasn't part of their ideology, but it was inherent in their approach.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:56PM (#975929)

    damnit why the little people no come with a manual?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @06:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @06:34PM (#976010)

    Hence philosophers like Mikhail Bakunin, who argued with Marx that Marx's plans would fail because bureaucracy of any kind has an inherent and inescapable tendency to become corrupt.

    And really, the people criticizing government bureaucracy today are not wrong. But they're blind if they miss that corporate bureaucracy is every bit as bad. The problem isn't government bureaucracy or corporate bureaucracy, the problem is bureaucracy. But as much as I think the anarchists get their criticisms of bureaucracy right, they're as naive in their solutions as anyone else. If you convince a group of people to live in a tiny direct democracy with no higher authority, you and your group will just get conquered by the closest state with a larger power structure and set of resources.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @10:25PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 26 2020, @10:25PM (#976105) Journal

      And really, the people criticizing government bureaucracy today are not wrong. But they're blind if they miss that corporate bureaucracy is every bit as bad.

      It's not. Because you can destroy business bureaucracy, sue it, or route around it legally. Even in the best of countries, government bureaucracy has protections that business bureaucracy can never have. The whole government/business divide is a mitigation of bureaucracy, not merely another flavor of it.