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[ChainedMaster]

San Antonio doctor says young man died after attending a COVID-19 party

A doctor from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio said a young man died after attending a COVID-19 party.

www.ksat.com

“One of the things that was heart wrenching that he said to his nurse was, you know, I think I made a mistake. And this young man went to a COVID party,” said Dr. Jane Appleby, Chief Medical Officer at Methodist Hospital.

Appleby said the man who died was 30 years old.

“He didn’t really believe. He thought the disease was a hoax. He thought he was young and he was invincible and wouldn’t get affected by the disease,” Dr. Appleby said.

Appleby said lately she has been hearing about COVID-19 parties.

“Someone will be diagnosed with the disease and they’ll have a party to invite their friends over to see if they can beat the disease,” Dr. Appleby said.

What the fuck?

 

[Kamina]

Its the same with the measles. Retards think its more healthy if the immune system fights through the disease, or that they become immune that way.
Reports of even young people who now carry lasting lung damage due to Corona or even died are fake-news to them.

 

[Weiji]

As someone who thinks the shutdown was a bad idea, I still don’t understand this desire to not take the situation seriously.

People are acting like this shit is a hoax. It’s not and it will fucking kill you. The fact that it doesn’t kill the vast majority doesn’t make it smart not to wear a mask or not to take precautions.

Even if you’re such a self loathing piece of shit that you don’t care about yourself, you should care about your friends and your family enough to not put them at risk.

Anyway you can think the government is overstepping and power hungry, that doesn’t mean you should ignore precautions just to spite them.

 

[Halo is Back]

Are you surprised? We had the Tide Pod "challenge" remember?

 

[brap]

Is this like bug chasing?

 

[Kamina]

Are you surprised? We had the Tide Pod "challenge" remember?

The what now?

 

[CrysisFreak]

Is this like bug chasing?

Bat chasing

 

[J-Roderton]

Idiots.

The what now?

People were eating Tide Pods and getting sick from it. Who would have thought.

 

[Halo is Back]

The what now?

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/inter...angerous-potentially-deadly/story?id=52379523

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Are you surprised? We had the Tide Pod "challenge" remember?

We also had people putting their phones in the microwave to charge em.


heh

 

[V4skunk]

No one even knows of any one that even suffered minor symptoms.
If the TV didn't tell you about it you wouldn't even know about corona.

 

[Kamina]

People were eating Tide Pods and getting sick from it. Who would have thought.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/inter...angerous-potentially-deadly/story?id=52379523

Thanks

Gee, who knew that eating chemicals meant for cleaning is poisonous?
/s

 

[cryptoadam]

I swear this same story came up like a month ago.

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

As someone who thinks the shutdown was a bad idea, I still don’t understand this desire to not take the situation seriously.

People are acting like this shit is a hoax. It’s not and it will fucking kill you. The fact that it doesn’t kill the vast majority doesn’t make it smart not to wear a mask or not to take precautions.

Even if you’re such a self loathing piece of shit that you don’t care about yourself, you should care about your friends and your family enough to not put them at risk.

Anyway you can think the government is overstepping and power hungry, that doesn’t mean you should ignore precautions just to spite them.

The shutdown should have been restricted to a total lockdown for 3 weeks nationwide followed by mandatory mask wearing...we could be done with it by now. I don't even blame Trump for it. State governors like Newsom picked winners and losers and allowed certain businesses to stay open and others were not all the while no mask requirement. And of course now they want to blame it all on red states while ignoring hundreds of thousands of sweaty bodies marching in the streets.

 

[Elcid]

San Antonio doctor says young man died after attending a COVID-19 party

A doctor from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio said a young man died after attending a COVID-19 party.

www.ksat.com

“One of the things that was heart wrenching that he said to his nurse was, you know, I think I made a mistake. And this young man went to a COVID party,” said Dr. Jane Appleby, Chief Medical Officer at Methodist Hospital.

Appleby said the man who died was 30 years old.

“He didn’t really believe. He thought the disease was a hoax. He thought he was young and he was invincible and wouldn’t get affected by the disease,” Dr. Appleby said.

Appleby said lately she has been hearing about COVID-19 parties.

“Someone will be diagnosed with the disease and they’ll have a party to invite their friends over to see if they can beat the disease,” Dr. Appleby said.

What the fuck?

Come on bro don't be a chicken. Let's have a covid party. If you die you lose.

 

[ChainedMaster]

The shutdown should have been restricted to a total lockdown for 3 weeks nationwide followed by mandatory mask wearing...we could be done with it by now. I don't even blame Trump for it. State governors like Newsom picked winners and losers and allowed certain businesses to stay open and others were not all the while no mask requirement. And of course now they want to blame it all on red states while ignoring hundreds of thousands of sweaty bodies marching in the streets.

Studies have shown protesters have a very low COVID rate. It may play a role, but clearly it is not the impetus of the spike.

 

[thefool]

People are just dumb. Like, really fucking dumb.
No reason to ever suspect someone doing something dumb isn't realistic. It is.

 

[YCoCg]

But Fox News assured me this was a lefty hoax, how can this be?

 

[Grinchy]

I completely encourage this. We need less dumb people around.

 

[Riastrad]

What's the problem? There's more infectious disease at your average gay bar than at any COVID party and I don't hear anyone complaining.

 

[Birdo]

“He didn’t really believe. He thought the disease was a hoax. He thought he was young and he was invincible and wouldn’t get affected by the disease,” Dr. Appleby said.

Okay, tinfoil hat time. This looks like one of those made up stories to scare young people into taking it more seriously.

The intention is good. But it's still shady.

 

[Hudo]

There are actually records of HIV parties, because it somehow gets people off when they know they could infect themselves while doing it (I think that was the reasoning someone gave in an interview).

 

[Riastrad]

There are actually records of HIV parties, because it somehow gets people off when they know they could infect themselves while doing it (I think that was the reasoning someone gave in an interview).

Your average gay bar is a HIV party. Hell, so is your average pride parade.

 

[Hudo]

Your average gay bar is a HIV party. Hell, so is your average pride parade.

Well, if you put it that way then I am way behind the curve with my knowledge, it seems. I mean back when I heard this random interview where one guy was basically explaining the concept of HIV parties, I was like "what in the fucking hell?". The concept was and still is pretty shocking to me. But I guess that's the same type of people that get off / get a rush while playing Russian roulette or doing parkour on rooftops of skyscrapers without any security measures, etc.

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

I think this COVID shit is retarded but even I will tell you I am not going to intentionally get sick or get others sick. Use common sense and do what you should have been doing even BEFORE wuhan, if you are sick stay the fuck home. Just because you want to work doesn’t mean we at the office should get sick with whatever bug you have - kung flu, the common cold, fucking anything contagious. If you are sick stay the fuck home. Get rest, get better.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

This is called natural selection.

 

[cryptoadam]

Coronavirus outbreak in South Shore after youth attend multiple parties: official - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The virus spread through asymptomatic youth who attended the first house party.

globalnews.ca

Canads thing too.

Ok I knew this wasnt a new story

Alabama health officials say they can't verify student 'COVID party'

The Alabama Department of Public Health said it could not verify reports of so-called COVID-19 parties where students deliberately tried to become infected.

www.ctvnews.ca

‘Covid Parties’ Are Not a Thing

No, Alabama frat boys aren’t doing snot shots and betting on who can get sick first. Why does the media keep suggesting otherwise?

www.wired.com

 

[TaySan]

In a world where tide pod challenges are a thing i think that answers your question.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

People like to party. They will find any reason.

Just as well the “experts” have done a very poor job informing the public on any of this stuff from day one. There is plenty of reason to disbelieve a lot of what goes around as fact because these things tend to be disproved quite often.

 

[EverydayBeast]

So original

 

[Romulus]

I've now known 4 people that have died from it. Granted one person I barely knew.
Weeks ago, I was sitting around too thinking this was overblown. The circle is closing in though. 12.5+ million cases confirmed is no joke with 225,000 new cases per day.