Virus-Spreading Partygoers From Another Planet

Sometimes I think these irresponsible morons must be from another planet where they'd never heard of the COVID-19 pandemic, because we keep hearing these stories over and over while the numbers get worse. Here are just two.

Item: Alabama students throwing 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected.  "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.'"

Item:  "On June 17, a crowd of up to 100 people, most of them in their early 20s, attended a party at a home in Rockland County, N.Y., just north of New York City.
The event violated a state order in effect at the time that capped gatherings at 10 people in an effort to slow the coronavirus’s spread.
For local officials, that was just the start of the problem.
The party’s host, who was showing signs of being sick at the time, later tested positive for the virus. So did eight guests. County officials, eager to keep the cluster from growing, dispatched disease tracers to try to learn who else might have been exposed to the virus at the party.
The tracers hit a wall.'My staff has been told that a person does not wish to, or have to, speak to my disease investigators,' Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, the county’s health commissioner, said on Wednesday. Of those being contacted about the party, she added: 'They hang up. They deny being at the party even though we have their names from another party attendee.'"

I don't care about any of these dangerously reckless, selfish idiots. They get what they deserve. I do care about the vulnerable senior citizens and people with compromised immune systems who we were supposed to be caring about from the very beginning.  Obviously, partying is much more important than saving lives.