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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @04:35PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @04:35PM (#975965)

    Note that on average, millenials are expected to earn less and have lower disposable income than their parents

    Their parents earned less and had lower disposable income starting out. It takes time to build up a career and financial stability. Millenials have been raised to believe this happens over night as soon as they graduate from high school.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @05:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @05:31PM (#975985)

    Where do you get this bullshit from? The Boomers were doing far better as a group at this point in their careers than the millenials are. Or, how about Gen X? In the years since I graduated high school, we've had 3 major crashes in the economy and after each one, the rich got richer while passing on less and less to the workers. The economy has gotten more and more hollowed out and there you go. It's not a matter of expectations of the underclasses, it's the expectations of the rich to be allowed to accumulate more and more wealth and to hell with anybody that's not making enough money to invest.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:00PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:00PM (#976024) Journal

      The Boomers were doing far better as a group

      Early Boomers were. Not so for the latter half. As I see it, this is primary a combination of first mover advantage from being in front of social and economic trends (such as being the first to buy houses in the hot real estate markets of the past half century) combined with globalism - labor competition from the developing world.

    • (Score: 2) by EEMac on Friday March 27 2020, @09:32PM

      by EEMac (6423) on Friday March 27 2020, @09:32PM (#976469)

      IIRC, the Federal Reserve was given control of the money supply to stop economic crashes from happening.

      They still happen a lot, yet the Fed is still in control. Hmm . . .

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:42PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:42PM (#976048)

    Their parents earned less and had lower disposable income starting out.

    This is so inaccurate it's not even funny.

    According to census figures: The average wage of a 25-year-old Millennial was approximately $30,000. The average wage of a 25-year-old in 1970 was approximately $8000, or around $50,000 in today's dollars. So younger adults today are getting paid a little more than half of what their parents were getting paid.

    And to add to that, rent and many other fixed expenses are much higher now than they were in 1970.

    And then they wonder why younger adults have much lower disposable income than their parents did when they were young.

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