BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

(CNN)Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said.

The parties are being held in Tuscaloosa, and infected people are urged to attend so others can intentionally contract the virus, City Council member Sonya McKinstry told CNN. She said she heard about the trend from fire officials.

"We thought that was kind of a rumors at first. We did some research, not only do the doctors' offices confirm it, but the state confirmed they also had the same information," she said.

During a presentation to the City Council this week, Fire Chief Randy Smith also said young people in the city are throwing parties with a payout if they catch coronavirus, McKinstry said.

The first person confirmed by a doctor to have coronavirus after the exposure wins the money made off the ticket sales, she said. Over the past few weeks, there have been several parties in the city and surrounding areas, and probably more that officials don't know about, she added.

"It makes me furious," McKinstry said. "Furious to the fact that something that is so serious and deadly is being taken for granted. Not only is it irresponsible, but you could contract the virus and take it home to your parents or grandparents."

The city is working on getting the word out and breaking up such parties. It also passed a mask ordinance this week that goes into effect Monday.

"This is not political. This is a public health issue. People are dying and there is no cure. We have to do whatever we can to save as many lives as possible, McKinstry said.

CNN has reached out to the Alabama Health Department for comment. The state has reported about 39,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 1,000 deaths.

Jay wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

COVID is out of control. Every day a new record. It seems to have migrated back north. Literally the worst managed outbreak in the entire world.

It migrated huh? Didn't have anything to do with tens of thousands of people having protest parties in the streets sans mask did it?

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

COVID is out of control. Every day a new record. It seems to have migrated back north. Literally the worst managed outbreak in the entire world.

It migrated huh? Didn't have anything to do with tens of thousands of people having protest parties in the streets sans mask did it?

didn't you go to a home depot without a mask whilst still carrying covid-19?

of course, you'll start shifting all the blame onto BLM now, and not, say, the leadership who completely undermined all covid lockdown measures, and continually downplayed its severity.

Jay wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Jay wrote:

It migrated huh? Didn't have anything to do with tens of thousands of people having protest parties in the streets sans mask did it?

Why do you even care? The people were contributing to herd immunity. You should be thanking them.

I just think it's laughable that you think Clinton would've been more successful controlling the American population.

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

It migrated huh? Didn't have anything to do with tens of thousands of people having protest parties in the streets sans mask did it?

didn't you go to a home depot without a mask whilst still carrying covid-19?

of course, you'll start shifting all the blame onto BLM now, and not, say, the leadership who completely undermined all covid lockdown measures, and continually downplayed its severity.

You're not even American and you still have this partisan stuff down pat. Yeah, couldn't be tens of thousands of people in close quarters without masks on. Gotta be something else. Orange man bad.

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

didn't you go to a home depot without a mask whilst still carrying covid-19?

of course, you'll start shifting all the blame onto BLM now, and not, say, the leadership who completely undermined all covid lockdown measures, and continually downplayed its severity.

You're not even American and you still have this partisan stuff down pat. Yeah, couldn't be tens of thousands of people in close quarters without masks on. Gotta be something else. Orange man bad.

i'm not about to start blaming BLM protestors when for 4 weeks before BLM even erupted, it was the american right-wing who were flouting lockdown rules, arguing over not wearing masks, and storming capitol buildings to exercise their right to spread lethal pathogens.

i think you might have a few partisan blindspots yourself.

why are you so mad at black people protesting in the street and weren't outraged at the white republicans? you at least tacitly endorsed all that and said 'see, told you so, the fine upstanding individual citizen won't take this sort of tyranny ...'

as macbeth said, you should be glad that militia LARPer and social revolutionaries alike are testing your herd immunity thesis. i'm really, really surprised that you find reason to criticise BLM!

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

You don't need to have the SS in the streets forcing people inside their homes to have had a better response than Trump provided. Again and again I will point out that there should have been absolutely no shortages of medical equipment and PPE in our country. Schools shouldn't be scrambling to find money in the budget to modify schools to be COVID safe. These are all easy things to do. Trump just doesn't care to actually do any of it.

Ok. And again and again I will point out that it takes time to produce stuff, especially when Chinese buyers scooped up everything off the shelves and shipped it back home right before the pandemic hit us. It's not normal to need a billion masks overnight. And as for schools, they always claim poverty. They'll do what they always do, cut sports and after school programs and beg for more tax increases to pay your superintendent another 50k/yr.

wow you are trying really, really hard to forget the 2 months of official inaction over covid-19.

why does america far and away have the worst outbreak in the world, then? every other nation were dealing with roughly the same timeline of outbreaks.

trump's admin have failed and failed uniquely. stop prevaricating.

uziq wrote:

yep, just like the far-right is 4 people, the only trump-supporters who ever flouted lockdown were the michigan militia.

sure weren't any republicans going around anywhere else loudly protesting the lockdown measures.

sure isn't any widespread backlash about wearing masks in public anywhere else.



the right-wing in america has been totally anti-lockdown and anti-'taking my freedom'. you don't have the right to then get angry at BLM people for, er, doing exactly what the fuck all right-wingers have been protesting the right to do.