covid-19 parties

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the training?

Americans need to be trained up to be proper Americans and part of that means we need that we don't care about other people. That's how we can complain about wearing a cloth mask!

College kids are young and so they need the training to become proper Americans and learn to focus ONLY on themselves. Soon they will join the "I got mine, forget you" generation!
 
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What is that supposed to mean in this context?
That in hind sight out response to this pandemic will look even worse and those who come after us will scratch their heads over stupidity such as this wondering how people could have been this carless or selfish.
 
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And stupid in the sense that they're subjecting themselves to unnecessary risks for a meme. Assuming that this is even true and not another "Tide Pod Challenge."
I looked it up after a girl I personally knew mentioned it on face book and found that in fact it was a thing particularly in (in our case neighboring AL. For the record the woman did not go to a party she was answering someone else who wanted to know why the cases were suddenly going up so quickly among college students ( since the campus closed in early/mid March.
 
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Some people ( college students in particular) seem to be throwing covid parties to see who will get it ( sometimes awarding money to the first person to test positive. Remines me of reading about chicken pox parties.
Do you have a citation?
 
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Americans need to be trained up to be proper Americans and part of that means we need that we don't care about other people. That's how we can complain about wearing a cloth mask!

College kids are young and so they need the training to become proper Americans and learn to focus ONLY on themselves. Soon they will join the "I got mine, forget you" generation!
Actually caring about people is what we should do.
 
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This is why we need to have policies of contact tracing and quarantine for those infected everywhere. I hope something like that is in place where these colleges are.
I doubt it I am in GA and I am not aware of any such programs. Other than people who are told they have it that have the decent sense to let people they have recently been in contact with know.
 
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-sigh-

I'm being sarcastic.

Sorry for the confusion.
I am VERY bad with that like a child in some ways. Not all young people are like that, either.
 
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Young Americans learn very quickly that we don't care about "other" people. It is part of the training.

This crowd doesn't even care about themselves, though.

Granted, I guess that's not so unusual either.
 
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This crowd doesn't even care about themselves, though.

Granted, I guess that's not so unusual either.

Yup. Well, they may think they don't now.

I see you're an existentialist. I'm an existential nihilist and even I don't wanna go out intubated on a ventilator!
 
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Yup. Well, they may think they don't now.

I see you're an existentialist. I'm an existential nihilist and even I don't wanna go out intubated on a ventilator!
Although most do not end up on one of those.
 
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Although most do not end up on one of those.

-sigh-

Yes, we know that. It was, forgive me, a bit of hyperbole in service to "levity".

You will find that there are a lot of people like me who use "sarcasm", "irony" and other forms of understated humor. There is a broad palette of options available to make light of dire situations. Often called "gallows humor" this type of humor is used to simultaneously accept the terrifying nature of reality AND to provide a respite.

I hope this helps.
 
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-sigh-

Yes, we know that. It was, forgive me, a bit of hyperbole in service to "levity".

You will find that there are a lot of people like me who use "sarcasm", "irony" and other forms of understated humor. There is a broad palette of options available to make light of dire situations. Often called "gallows humor" this type of humor is used to simultaneously accept the terrifying nature of reality AND to provide a respite.

I hope this helps.
I noticed that so far today FL has over 11k new cases. I do not know if they have these.
 
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I did not say they did not touch each other that is the point to see who will get co-vid.
If I remember colleges parties, the 'touching' is the end game. Any kind of 'story' that guys can come up with is fair game in order to reach that end game. Guys chase girls, especially at parties. That is not going to change no matter what the media tells them to scare them.
 
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This is why we need to have policies of contact tracing and quarantine for those infected everywhere. I hope something like that is in place where these colleges are.
Yes, we absolutely need more laws and regulations. When we get enough we might reach utopia.
 
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If I remember colleges parties, the 'touching' is the end game. Any kind of 'story' that guys can come up with is fair game in order to reach that end game. Guys chase girls, especially at parties. That is not going to change no matter what the media tells them to scare them.
Yes, but at this point there seems to be more to it.
 
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Yes, we absolutely need more laws and regulations. When we get enough we might reach utopia.
When people can't be responsible enough to "self regulate" then they obviously need someone else to do it for them.
 
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