Man on the street interviews with CV partiers at Spring Break.

[Dennis Donovan]

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Tim Hogan ✔@timjhogan

Oh my god.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-florida-beaches-ignore-social-distancing/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=84575151 …

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4:20 PM - Mar 18, 2020

[FirstLight]

1. Idjits

I swear, I hate that generation (and my daughter just turned 18 and she also kinda thinks I'm overreacting... my son, 17 won't even talk about it (he's actually scared I think)

but ya, unless they see dead people in the streets, they dont give a crap, cuz it's ALLL about them and getting their Spring Break ON... UGH

[VarryOn]

2. It's probably a good thing this demographic...

is piss poor at showing up to vote.

[BigmanPigman]

3. My neighbor, 30 something, Dem, teacher

said the same BS to me on Sunday. I wanted to punch him in the face and I told him so. And I am a 5'1" pacifist who was also a teacher.

[procon]

4. Thin the herd; it's nature's way of culling out

the weak and unfit. Another classic Darwin reminder.

[lapfog_1]

5. future darwin award winners

unfortunately X number of these little shits will get infected at their drunken parties... and transfer to mom or dad or grandma/pa when they return home to do their laundry..


"we have been planning this... blah blah... it's my birthday blah blah... it's overblown blah blah"

Entitled little idiots.

[Yavin4]

6. And that's why you cannot build a real Progressive movement on young voters

A real Progressive movement has to come from working class adults.

[IcyPeas]

7. so.... are these college students? we are doomed

new word: Covidiot

(seen on twitter comments)

[GulfCoast66]

8. Being embarrassingly honest. That would have been me at 20. Not proud of it.

But I was young and stupid.

[dustyscamp]

9. He should listen to Arnold

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[OneBro]

10. Teens and young adults have ALWAYS engaged in risky behavior.

Not all, of course, but I suspect the percentage of risk takers during any particular era is probably consistent. Many adults of all ages continued to engage in unprotected sex even at the height of the HIV/AIDS scares. Teens and young adults from the beginning of time saw themselves as invincible, and this generation is no different. Coronavirus is the threat of the day, and it's difficult to blame them for such irrational responses when barely a week ago all right wing media and the President of the United States was telling them the virus is just a hoax headed by Democrats.

Just thinking about the laundry list of mind-numbingly stupid things I did as a young adult makes my head hurt. Frankly, given that the current President of the United States is essentially Ignatius J. Reilly without the hat, there is good reason for these "kids" to think the world is taking a giant dump on their futures anyway, so why not "Turn it up!"

[Srkdqltr]

11. You are very right.

I'm 78 my husband is 81. We did things in our younger years that would be considered stupid.
We didn't think anything of it. I was going to say .. nothing that would get us killed.... but some maybe would have.
There are things that we would not tell our kids, particularly when they were teens.

[Captain Zero]

12. Hope none of them were pre-med.

But that first guy probably was. He will graduate last in his medical class and be your primary care physician.