And you thought the Tide-Pod thing was stupid?
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wrote on 2 Jul 2020, 15:03 last edited by
Stupider...because if you win, you can kill someone else.
Tuscaloosa City Councilor Sonya McKinstry said students have been organizing "COVID parties" as a game to intentionally infect each other with the contagion that has killed more than 127,000 people in the United States. She said she recently learned of the behavior and informed the city council of the parties occurring in the city.
She said the organizers of the parties are purposely inviting guests who have COVID-19.
"They put money in a pot and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. It makes no sense," McKinstry said. "They're intentionally doing it."
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wrote on 2 Jul 2020, 15:22 last edited by
Sounds like they're promoting the local economy with the pot money so what's the problem?
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wrote on 2 Jul 2020, 15:34 last edited by
From Time Magazine 1964:
Spring 1964 is the best of times for a German measles party. The rules call for lots of kissing games in an unventilated room, so that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little girls get the infection. It is consistently so mild an inconvenience that for children of both sexes it is best to have it and get it over with; one bout generally confers lifelong immunity.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870897,00.html
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From Time Magazine 1964:
Spring 1964 is the best of times for a German measles party. The rules call for lots of kissing games in an unventilated room, so that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little girls get the infection. It is consistently so mild an inconvenience that for children of both sexes it is best to have it and get it over with; one bout generally confers lifelong immunity.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870897,00.html
wrote on 3 Jul 2020, 11:00 last edited by@Klaus said in And you thought the Tide-Pod thing was stupid?:
From Time Magazine 1964:
Spring 1964 is the best of times for a German measles party. The rules call for lots of kissing games in an unventilated room, so that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little girls get the infection. It is consistently so mild an inconvenience that for children of both sexes it is best to have it and get it over with; one bout generally confers lifelong immunity.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870897,00.html
Hmmm.. why ‘more especially’ the girls? Sure it was just kissing going on in these parties?
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@Klaus said in And you thought the Tide-Pod thing was stupid?:
From Time Magazine 1964:
Spring 1964 is the best of times for a German measles party. The rules call for lots of kissing games in an unventilated room, so that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little girls get the infection. It is consistently so mild an inconvenience that for children of both sexes it is best to have it and get it over with; one bout generally confers lifelong immunity.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870897,00.html
Hmmm.. why ‘more especially’ the girls? Sure it was just kissing going on in these parties?
wrote on 3 Jul 2020, 12:00 last edited by@jon-nyc said in And you thought the Tide-Pod thing was stupid?:
Hmmm.. why ‘more especially’ the girls? Sure it was just kissing going on in these parties?
My guess is that German measles is particularly harmful if it occurs during pregnancy.