News 30-year-old Texan man dies in hospital after attending COVID-19 party

I read about this on Twitter earlier. It's sad but not unexpected.

These are basically "kill yourselves" parties. We all know how viruses work. We figured this out back in the late 1800's.
 
I do get their logic.

In the past, we had people organizing RUBELLA parties so that girls contract the disease before being pregnant, get lifetime immunity and then move in with it. But Rubella is a harmless disease and doesnt kill.

To apply the same logic in COVID19 is impossible. The fact is, even if you dont go to a party, you contract the disease anyway. XD
 
Herd immunity to COVID-19 has been found to be unachievable and pursuing it is unethical. For example, Spain had 30K cases, but only 5% of their population had antibodies to protect them against the virus.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who wants to try COVID parties. You can die, and you might die from your ignorance.

Imagine going to a party for the purpose of getting a virus which can and has killed people, and has a chance to kill you.
Surely, he must have thought this through for at least more than two seconds, but he didn't think that it was a bad idea?
R.I.P. to him, but man, the guy should be nominated for a Darwin award.
 
Herd immunity to COVID-19 has been found to be unachievable and pursuing it is unethical. For example, Spain had 30K cases, but only 5% of their population had antibodies to protect them against the virus.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who wants to try COVID parties. You can die, and you might die from your ignorance.

Imagine going to a party for the purpose of getting a virus which can and has killed people, and has a chance to kill you.
Surely, he must have thought this through for at least more than two seconds, but he didn't think that it was a bad idea?
R.I.P. to him, but man, the guy should be nominated for a Darwin award.
Remember that when the vaccine comes out, because all a vaccine is, is accelerated, artificial heard immunity.
 
Remember that when the vaccine comes out, because all a vaccine is, is accelerated, artificial heard immunity.

A vaccine is a purposely weakened or dead strain of the virus. The whole point of it is that it won't kill you.
These COVID parties can expose people to the active strain of the virus. This is a virus that has been known to kill people and leave them with permanent physical damage, and the winner is who gets it first?

Vaccines are intended to prevent people from getting it by exposing them to a weak version of the virus. Herd immunity right now is unsustainable because the virus wreaking havoc right now is the full version of COVID, not the weakened version.
 
A vaccine is a purposely weakened or dead strain of the virus. The whole point of it is that it won't kill you.
These COVID parties can expose people to the active strain of the virus. This is a virus that has been known to kill people and leave them with permanent physical damage, and the winner is who gets it first?

Vaccines are intended to prevent people from getting it by exposing them to a weak version of the virus. Herd immunity right now is unsustainable because the virus wreaking havoc right now is the full version of COVID, not the weakened version.

EXCEPT, vaccines do kill a small percent of people (huh, just like covid). So, it's trading one small risk for another, either heard immunity works or it doesn't, you can't have it both way.
 
EXCEPT, vaccines do kill a small percent of people (huh, just like covid). So, it's trading one small risk for another, either heard immunity works or it doesn't, you can't have it both way.

Vaccines do kill a small amount of people, which is an unfortunate but necessary fact to recognize.
However, I firmly believe that the risk of death/adverse effects from a vaccine would be lower than the risk of death/adverse effects from COVID itself.
 

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