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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, @06:15PM (3 children)
The cost of college skyrocketed because of freely available student loans.
When it is "other peoples money" (cash from the bank, as most didn't understand the 'pay it back later' aspect) one has less incentive to price shop.
With less incentive for purchasers to price shop, colleges had less incentive to keep tuition costs down.
Rinse, repeat, for a few cycles, and you have tuition costs so high that a loan is required, rather than optional.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:14PM
They did understand that they'd have to pay it back, but they were assured 2 things that just weren't true:
1. They were assured that if they got a college degree, they'd be getting paid like somebody who had graduated college in, say, 1970, rather than like somebody who graduated college in 2010. And that didn't happen, because too many people had taken that advice.
2. They were assured that if they worked 10 years in the public or non-profit sectors, their student loans would be forgiven entirely (i.e. they wouldn't have to pay the rest). It turned out that lots of them worked those 10 years at jobs they thought would give them loan forgiveness, sent in the paperwork, and learned that they didn't actually qualify [forbes.com].
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:02PM (1 child)
Except, that's not true. The cost of college has been shifted onto students from the state. Loans are a factor, but they're hardly the factor. 40 years ago, the state would pick up 80%, now is 20%.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @10:31PM