If you thought having to tell people not to inject disinfectant was insane...

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Link to tweet

Health district says NO coronavirus parties

“Walla Walla County health officials are receiving reports of COVID-19 parties occurring in our community, where noninfected people mingle with an infected person in an effort to catch the virus,” the Walla Walla Department of Health said in a statement on Tuesday.

“While some people with COVID-19 are considered to have mild symptoms, others are at higher risk for severe illness,” the statement noted. “Health officials stress that there is much we don’t know about COVID-19. Epidemiologist don’t know if immunity is a sure thing, if reinfection is possible, or if virus could continue living inside you. They do know that even the young can be hospitalized, survivors may suffer long-term damage, and even a ‘mild’ case isn’t mild.”

Meghan DeBolt from Department of Community Health told KEPR that coronavirus parties “are not part of the solution.”

“They are taking it in the opposite direction because that will lead to an outbreak and every outbreak that we have sets us further away from reopening important social areas of the economy,” she explained.

https://keprtv.com/news/coronavirus/health-district-says-no-coronavirus-parties

[LastDemocratInSC]

1. How about some parties where everybody jumps off the roof?

[dhill926]

2. new form of Russian Roulette...

but these dumbfucks fail to realize the harm they can do to others...

[COLGATE4]

3. The contest for this year's Darwin Award is

going to be monumental. There will have to be a lot of "Runner Up" and "Participant" trophies made.

[grumpyduck]

4. Yeah, and meanwhile the public is paying for it.

[renate]

5. the world must be looking at us and thinking we have LOST OUR DAMN MINDS

I've never thought before that being American would make citizens of other countries actually pity us, but... I'm pretty sure the rest of the world either pities us or laughs at us right now. We look so ridiculous in every way, every day.

[Disaffected]

7. I'm afraid that is more true

than you may think (at least from my perspective north of the border).

It is amusing in a black humour sort of way but also profoundly troubling.

[renate]

8. It's probably not possible for it to be more true than I think!

I think it’s as true as true can be!

It’s worst for those of us who live here, but it must be pretty disconcerting for our historical allies to see a trusted sibling, who’s never been perfect but is essentially dependable, suddenly sticking straws in their hair and gibbering in the corner.

[crickets]

10. FOX News kills. nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. I wrote this here on April 11th:

"Will people in the relatively near future be discriminated against regarding employment opportunities if they can not provide evidence that they have personally developed anti-bodies to Covid-19? While Covid testing is only available to 1% to 2% of the public, I doubt if many professions would require proof of personal anti-bodies in order to work with the public. Perhaps first responders would be screened in that way. But could employers in the retail sector, or in large office complexes for example, require the provision of anti-body certification from potential hires? If so, might young potential employees be tempted to seek out exposure to Covid-19 on the assumption that it would not seriously sicken them due to their age, so that they could emerge from a minor bout with better job opportunities?"

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11. that's crazy

...and not at all unlikely.

How sad to see desperate people trying to navigate between the virus, politics, and the whims of businesses which never took much, if any, responsibility for workers' health and safety.

[crimycarny]

9. That's why selective quarantine won't work

There were some ideas being thrown around as to how to open the economy while still controlling the spread. One idea was to test people for antibodies and hand out the equivalent of some sort of ID that would allow anyone who had COVID-19 antibodies to return to work while those not yet exposed would need to remain at home. OMG—can you imagine? You want to see some coronavirus parties, just pass a law like that. People will be falling all over themselves to become infected.

My husband mentioned maybe allowing people to go back to work while protecting the most vulnerable. I said in theory that sounds good but who decides? If you have high-blood pressure but are the sole provider for your family, you are going to be told you have to stay home?

So the only way is if we are all in this TOGETHER.

[2golddogs]

12. Reinfection

My brother is just getting over it, he went back to work Monday. His doctor told him he can absolutely be reinfected, use all the caution in the world. She has patients who’ve been reinfected multiple times.

[Ms. Toad]

13. I ran into this attitude on my cousin's FB page

Not a party, specifically, but the concept that nominally not-at-risk people should seek to get this virus by not wearing masks.

[shanti]

14. I will never forget

the pics of a Chinese woman in Wuhan spitting on her neighbors' doorknobs and elevator buttons, back in January. I felt the same chill when reading this story.

[lettucebe]

15. I literally just this morning wondered to myself if people were having Coronavirus parties

Insanity on every level

[Wednesdays]

16. K&R. nt