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Alabama college students are throwing 'COVID parties' where they invite infected people and gamble on who gets sick first, officials say
- Thread starter SilentPanda
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Maybe it violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996:
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) | CDC
HIPAA is a federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed.
www.cdc.gov
If they got tested by their school or the health department (or if the state of Alabama paid for the tests), they definately signed a release allowing public officials to contact trace.
Civil liberties are important, but that is absolutely not the concerning part of this story.
My closest friend lives in Alabama, and he can attest that they already do. Remember, the main reason Florida Man became such a meme, is because their state laws allow for a unique level of transparency when it comes to reporting on crime. But there are people just as dumb as Florida Man all across the country, and they're particularly common in the deep south. This is what happens when you systematically destroy public education, so people will remain ignorant enough that they'll repeatedly vote for politicians who don't care one iota about them.
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I hope enough Zoomers live to help fund my future retirement.
Ok Boomer. It's always an incredibly small subset of the population. Stop falling for these stories.
edit - literally only 86 kids ate tide pods, that is such a small number.
As much as I'm all for dunking on my state's educational standards and ignorance that's bred in more rural areas, I would place bets on this being moderately well-off suburban kids.
A lot of these states not taking things seriously are like Fallout Vaults. Each one a different experiment in how to transmit Covid.
Didn't grow. It's always been there. You just know about it now with the magic of the internet.
I live here and I'm not even surprised. Sounds like the kind of stupid shit that some UA students would do.
If a student is knowingly trying to get themselves or others infected, they should be expelled.
Someone help me understand why this isn't a prosecutable crime? If someone knowingly spreads HIV there is criminal liability.
In this particular situation, it might be a stretch since it sounds like all are aware. But what about all the Kevin's and Karen's not wearing masks while getting in people's faces, sometimes purposefully coughing on food, ect... Can we start prosecuting them?
In this particular situation, it might be a stretch since it sounds like all are aware. But what about all the Kevin's and Karen's not wearing masks while getting in people's faces, sometimes purposefully coughing on food, ect... Can we start prosecuting them?
The great America experiment is officially over. You can thank an utter failure to educate the importance of critical thinking and common sense, which sadly was an intentional failure.
I'm not sure if it's even idiocy at this point, Americans have always been extremely callous and cynical about public health and safety. It's why we've all basically given up on trying to solve gun violence.
Not to say it 100% isn't happening but this is shoddy reporting.
The city council is quoting the fire chief, who said he spoke to local doctors who "confirmed" this gambling story and patient health histories? How the fuck does that work?
The city council is quoting the fire chief, who said he spoke to local doctors who "confirmed" this gambling story and patient health histories? How the fuck does that work?
This is what happens when a certain political party that controls Alabama tries to make public education as shitty as possible.
Reading further down it would seem they used contact tracing, no?
Nah, can just speak for myself as Gen X represantative...
Staying home on my couch and shaking my head over those idiots thinking lock them up...
Not having children myself i can at least vouch for my friends children, they know how to behave in a pandemic...
Well, now I feel foolish. I thought I believed there was no bottom to human stupidity but if this was presented to me as fiction, I wouldn't believe it. It's just so stupid. Vilely stupid. How many innocent people will be infected from this?
OK, this time, I promise, I understand there's no limit to human foolishness.
OK, this time, I promise, I understand there's no limit to human foolishness.
The "purposefully trying to give each other Covid and gambling on it" sounds like the rainbow party bullshit boomers made up a decade ago. I'm sure college students are going to parties and contracting Covid that way, but a single Tuscaloosa county city councilmember and the local fire chief are not exactly perfect sources information for the behavior of college students. The university says they investigated and found no evidence of this, and the multiple journalists are saying its bunk.
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This is exactly the sort of dumb media hysteria bullshit that spreads because of credulous reporters believing uninformed public officials spreading a story that confirms people's pre-existing biases. If these things are actually happening it should be trivial to find someone who's participated (the same way reporters have found plenty of people who have done other dumb covid-related shit).
