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Covid 'pox parties'

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User135644 · 07/07/2021 17:26

With the announcement this week of basically "we're all going to get Covid now, so crack on with life", i've heard a few people now locally looking to arrange Covid parties now. This is so they can get Covid 'before freedom day', or specifically before their holiday in August, therefore they don't have to worry about testing positive or catching it while on holiday.

Will these be the new 'Pox parties' over the next few weeks?

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Lemons1571 · 07/07/2021 21:24

My kids are currently having their own covid party between them. I suppose it gives me somewhere to go legally - back to the test centre.

Don’t need a covid party here. The secondary school has provided with ease.

motogogo · 07/07/2021 21:32

100 youngsters here went to a party in a barn - it wasn't technically a covid party, it was an 18th birthday but the next result is 3 local secondary schools have switched to online learning

olympicsrock · 07/07/2021 21:38

I’m 43 , fit and well. I was really ill with covid . 8 days of hell. Still recovering

duffeldaisy · 07/07/2021 21:39

It completely ignores the risk of Long Covid (as well as possible death for some). Long Covid numbers seem to be around 7-15%, depending on different articles and guesstimates.

Would you go to a party of 30 people, knowing that 2 or 3 partygoers at random would go on to develop an ongoing illness possibly including diabetes, or kidney disease, heart disease, or brain damage?
And that of every 3 of these parties, at least 1 person will die?

In literally any other situation we wouldn't risk that kind of thing. If consenting adults want to do that kind of thing then it's really stupid but their choice. But I hope people don't start trying to do that with children.

UndercoverToad · 07/07/2021 21:43

I initially read that as Covid Sex Party…

chickenyhead · 07/07/2021 21:51

@UndercoverToad

I initially read that as Covid Sex Party…
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StrawberrySundayz · 07/07/2021 22:02

Wrong!

gurglebelly · 07/07/2021 22:22

Eurgh this is why 'we have to take individual responsibility' can never work in this country, too many selfish fuckwits

LaurieFairyCake · 07/07/2021 22:29

I'm double vaccinated and I'd MUCH rather catch Covid now than winter Hmm

I don't think we can AVOID catching Covid, can we ?

LIZS · 07/07/2021 22:35

They do realise that pcr tests can show positive for over 3 months afterwards, so it may not be a benefit to catch it just before a holiday.

Voice0fReason · 07/07/2021 23:00

If they go to one of these parties, if they're healthy and low risk and if they then isolate and steer clear of higher risk people..... is it still selfish?
Yes. Selfish and stupid.
With each new infection comes the risk of new, more dangerous variants. That is how we are in the mess we are currently in.
We need to keep the spread low so that the virus does not get more dangerous and vaccine-resistant.

ChimneyPot · 07/07/2021 23:13

I know of some 17-20 year olds, in Texas, who had a Covid party last summer.
Apart from that fact that the father of one of them also caught Covid and ended up in ICU one of the teens is no seriously ill with heart issues caused by Covid. She had very mild Covid after the party last year.

LaurieFairyCake · 07/07/2021 23:15

Well the Delta and the even MORE infectious Lambda variant are spreading while we still have social distancing, masks, rule of six...

It's so infectious it CANNOT be contained anymore

PrincessNutNuts · 07/07/2021 23:23

@LaurieFairyCake

Well the Delta and the even MORE infectious Lambda variant are spreading while we still have social distancing, masks, rule of six...

It's so infectious it CANNOT be contained anymore

Delta is in a lot of countries.

Most of them are not yet over-run.

PrincessNutNuts · 07/07/2021 23:25

@LaurieFairyCake

I'm double vaccinated and I'd MUCH rather catch Covid now than winter Hmm

I don't think we can AVOID catching Covid, can we ?

Well that's pretty shit for the millions of extremely vulnerable then isn't it?

What a shame that they live in this country and not one with an adequate covid response.

LaurieFairyCake · 07/07/2021 23:37

Well they will be overrun - it's ridiculously infectious

I hate this government and they've made so many ridiculous errors of judgement but I don't think there's anything containable about this

It's choosing between two shit options - get it now while it's summer and hospitalisations are low

Or later when it's bloody winter and all the other illnesses are around

There is NO good option (there were plenty at the beginning of the pandemic)

Quaggars · 08/07/2021 01:37

If that's true, people are absolute dickheads.
Just as much as I think people throwing chicken pox parties are utter dickheads too.

Justa47 · 08/07/2021 01:39

@User135644

Shows the Frank stupidity of many of the general public

Tealightsandd · 08/07/2021 01:47

@LaurieFairyCake

I'm double vaccinated and I'd MUCH rather catch Covid now than winter Hmm

I don't think we can AVOID catching Covid, can we ?

We can. It was an active choice to let Delta in, an active choice to let it freely spread, and an active choice to not suppress and contain. People might not like the other choices (although others, possibly the majority, will) but it's most definitely a choice.

Long Covid means everybody is at risk. Of long term disability. It's difficult to avoid all risk but there are mitigation measures that people can take - and it's definitely not something to actively seek out (getting infected).

It's worth bearing in mind high viral load. Evidence suggests exposure to higher viral loads increases the risks. Both of catching it, but also getting more seriously ill. It's one reason why healthcare workers have been hit so hard.

So if you're going to catch it, it's better to have had smaller exposure (i.e. not a party packed full of people actively trying to spread it).

Tealightsandd · 08/07/2021 01:52

don't think there's anything containable about this

It is. If people really wanted to. We won't contain it, but that's an active choice. And, particularly with the dangers of more vaccine resistant strains, it's still probably better to go for the containment option. But it would take a strong leader to do that. One willing and able to ignore pressure to do otherwise.

Tealightsandd · 08/07/2021 01:53

We won't contain it. But we need to be honest that it's an active choice not to. Just as it was to let Delta in and to spread.

unwuthering · 08/07/2021 02:19

Oh, yes, brilliant idea. They tried this last year in the States, everyone involved thought it was hilarious - until their middleaged family members died en masse.

Iquitit · 08/07/2021 03:12

If they go to one of these parties, if they're healthy and low risk and if they then isolate and steer clear of higher risk people..... is it still selfish?

Yes, if they don't isolate for 10 days afterwards which I highly suspect they won't. I'm not CEV but
I work in care, I could be sat behind them on the bus (mask free from 19th I believe) or they could be Infront of me in the supermarket (again, possibly mask free) and then despite the fact I'm double vaccinated I get infected and take it into 20+ elderly and vulnerable people, and staff who have also been double vaccinated but they may not still withstand infection, they're also much loved family members who will not only be exposed to covid but also have their care put at risk because staff that test positive will need to isolate. So someone else can go on holiday, because they've sacrificed so much.
I'm all for 'getting on with it' at some point, we're about as protected as we can be, but this to me, is so self centered and entitled.

Gingerkittykat · 08/07/2021 04:33

They had a lot of covid parties at the start of the pandemic in the USA. This one didn't end well.

walksen · 08/07/2021 04:34

The government have said learn to live with it.

The messaging is that the vulnerable have been vaccinated.

According to Boris the link to deaths is "severed".

Almost all restrictions are being removed.

Comparisons with flu are rife.

Loads of people keep quoting figures saying only X hundred people without underlying conditions have died of covid, or you are perfectly safe if under 70.

Many many people will conclude that everyone will inevitably catch it and the government is fine with this so it does not surprise me people are finding their own way of "living with it".

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