Taylor Swift album party becomes superspreader event after nearly 100 test positive for Covid

[ItsjustMe]

https://news.yahoo.com/taylor-swift-album-party-becomes-121905755.html

A Taylor Swift album party in Sydney, Australia, appears to have been a superspreader event, with authorities issuing an urgent warning after the party was connected to nearly 100 Covid cases.

In a public health alert issued on Thursday, the New South Wales Ministry of Health said it had been notified of a "venue of concern" in Sydney connected to at least 97 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

The health ministry said that anyone who attended the "On Repeat: Taylor Swift Red Party" at the Metro Theatre from 9 p.m. local time on Friday Dec. 10 is considered a "close contact" of a positive Covid case and "must immediately get tested and isolate for 7 days."

The health ministry said it was likely that at least some of the cases identified were the omicron variant.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Taylor Swift guests leave event feeling like Taylor Hams.

[Busterscruggs]

2. Is it safe

To assume these people weren't wearing masks or vaxxed? I feel bad for their friends and families with that reckless behavior. Australia doesn't look fondly on that.

[LisaL]

3. They were likely vaxxed.

Australia has already achieved higher vaccination rate than US.

[Blues Heron]

4. people really need to cool it on the partying

Its just going to lead to more spreading like this.

[Thrill]

5. It's really amazing how people act like they

Have to go somewhere, when they’re feeling sick. So selfish. Stay your ass home.

[CrackityJones75]

7. Thing is you don't have to feel like you are sick

Thing is you don’t have to feel like you are sick to contribute to the spread. You can feel perfectly fine if vaxxed and still spread it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I'm also amazed at the people who just absolutely must

travel somewhere, go to a crowded bar or concert. Or get on an airplane because they haven't seen family in two years and absolutely must go see them.

I keep on wondering how folks during WWII survived without being able to visit or vacation somewhere.

[Calculating]

8. It's because they don't see how this is ever gonna end

Basically they've given up and just said YOLO. I mean, do you see this ending? The second it seems like we're starting to end this we just have another variant appear from foreign countries as happened with Delta and Omicron.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. It will eventually come to an end.

I've been offering this analogy for some time now:

Pretend it's 1939 and you and I are planning a trip to Europe next year. We've been working extra jobs, saving as much money as possible, and we are finally beginning to nail down our plans, how we will get there, where we will go, the sights we must see. But then September rolls around and war breaks out. Oh, crap. Looks like we won't be going to Europe next year, but we're optimists and hope the war won't last very long and we'll get there in 1941. Well, the war goes on and on, doesn't finally end in Europe until May, 1945. The soonest we could possibly take that long postponed trip is 1946. More likely a year or two later. And when we finally get there, we'll see a Europe utterly different than the one that existed in 1939, one that will never be at all the same again.

Something similar is happening with Covid. Lots of things are changing, such as working from home and distance learning, just to name two. Over time other things will change a lot. We just don't know what those things or those changes will be just yet. So really, if the start of Covid can be compared to the start of WWII, it's just barely 1941 at this point. We have at least four long years left to go.

Mind you, I'm not saying this will last exactly as long as WWII, just that it's going to last longer and change things a lot more than we realize even at this point.