Covid-19 Parties

[Emergent]

What do you think of people getting together in order to purposely be exposed? I think their idea is to get it over with. I remember when we used to do that with our kids with chickenpox. Chicken pox, like this virus, is way better to get when you are young. It was serious to get if you were over 20, they used to tell us back when I was a kid. Is that why these folks are doing this?

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In Walla Walla County, health officials said some of their COVID-19 cases involve people who exposed themselves to the coronavirus on purpose.

Health officials concerned about rising number of 'COVID-19 parties' in Washington

[Cowboyardee]

If longer-term immunity was a sure thing, and the local area hospitals not currently among the more overwhelmed, deliberate self-exposure of young healthy people who are unlikely to fall deathly ill and who also have the means and willingness to fully and carefully self-isolate for several weeks afterward might actually be a useful strategy that puts the breaks on the ease of the disease's spread in the area in the months to come. That's also assuming neither a vaccine nor an effective treatment regimen is right around the corner, and that the US doesn't get its act together between testing, contact tracing, follow up, and targeted isolation to effectively slow the spread of disease as other countries have.

For my money, that's too many assumptions. Anyway, I tend to doubt that the kinds of young folks having covid parties are also the type to carefully self-isolate (which would include the time from inoculation until the first symptoms, which takes days and seems to vary). But as always, I could be wrong.

[InTheLongRun]

10 hours ago, Emergent said:

What do you think of people getting together in order to purposely be exposed? I think their idea is to get it over with. I remember when we used to do that with our kids with chickenpox. Chicken pox, like this virus, is way better to get when you are young. It was serious to get if you were over 20, they used to tell us back when I was a kid. Is that why these folks are doing this?

Health officials concerned about rising number of 'COVID-19 parties' in Washington

I think it's moronic, for many reasons.

[Davey Do]

Well, the Black Plaque had the Flagellates and the Covid-19 has the Par-Tayers!

[DTWriter]

I feel sorry for the healthcare professionals who have to take care of these mor... patients.

[beachynurse, ASN, BSN]

I think that these people are very foolish, especially since some of those at the so called party could end up fatalities. I wouldn’t risk my life like that. Plus there isn’t enough known about this virus to know if there is immunity after recovery.

[Leader25, ASN, BSN, RN]

This ranks right along with the girl licking a public toilet seat just to get noticed on social media.I hope they dont expect to be taken care of by already overworked frontline staff.

[Heather Haley]

Seeing as there is no rhyme or reason as to who will get ill and to what extent, its a pretty bad idea.