Viral video shows large Chicago house party amid coronavirus pandemic

[jmg257]

CHICAGO (WGN) – A viral video reportedly shows people attending a crowded house party in Chicago early Sunday in violation of the state’s stay-at-home order.

Posted live to Facebook by Tink Purcell, the video appears to show people partying and listening to music while standing shoulder-to-shoulder inside a home in the early hours of Sunday morning.

While some people in the video are wearing masks, most are not, and everyone in it is breaking social distancing recommendations issued by the state to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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“While most Chicagoans are doing their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19, reckless actions like these threaten our public health and risk erasing the progress we have made. We will hold those responsible accountable,” Lightfoot said.

Chicago’s West Side has been hit particularly hard by the spread of the coronavirus disease, statistics from the State of Illinois show.

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Just fucking lovely. GO figure why the statistics are what they are.

Idiots.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'd say let's let Mr. Darwin prove his point, except for the fact that these idiots

will spread it all over the place and give it to non-stupid people.

[Mariana]

9. This virus has very little effect on natural selection.

Most of the people who die from the Covid are old, so this doesn't prevent them from reproducing. They've already done it, or not, as the case may be.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Not all of them are old. And anyhow, it does raise issues relating to

the survival of the smartest.

[matt819]

2. What's unfortunate

is that we'll not really know the outcome of this gathering. How many will get the virus? How many will die? And how will we know? Maybe there will be an uptick in Chicago cases, maybe the uptick will be somewhere else. And what if there's no effect? What would that mean?

Let's go back to Easter. Has there been any reporting on increases in cases in communities that held large Easter gatherings? What about the Kentucky governor's assertion that they would take down license plates and track outbreaks as a result of attending services? Any reporting on that?

Stuff just happens and heads into the memory hole instantaneously. Trump recommends injecting lysol and is mocked mercilessly worldwide for a few days. Now? Just jokes.

Maybe there's a lesson here. Get him to say increasingly stupid shit (as if that's a challenge for him), mock him mercilessly, and then have him say he was being sarcastic, just joking. So that this becomes a "jusk joking presidency" meme, maybe for a few days, maybe as a campaign issue.

In any case, with no one seemingly on top of anything with COVID-19, it feels as if we're drifting aimlessly in uncharted water, no power, no control, awful weather, water seeping in everywhere, the radios are out, and the captain abandoned ship on the only lifeboat.

[sfstaxprep]

3. I Feel Lucky

I have the ability to control if/when I go into my office, and am mostly working from home. If I need to continue this way for the rest of 2020, I can more or less do so.

I am not going out unless I absolutely have to. I see people heading to the beaches which are a 20 minute drive from me, but there's no way I'd go anywhere near them right now.

If I had to sit in my condo and watch people outside get infected going about their lives, that is what I will do.

[cwydro]

6. Good question.

I think they have linked the voting in Wisconsin to new cases, including some poll workers.

Georgia’s ridiculous opening may provide more statistics than we want to see. Time will tell.

[jimfields33]

7. From what I heard (grain of salt)

I’s that many pastors died but not the flock which is kinda weird. But maybe because the pastors hugged every person. Who knows. We’ll have to keep a close look at California beaches as well since tens of thousand showed up this weekend.

[maxsolomon]

4. people do what they can.

I saw a LOT more people out this weekend: walking, jogging, biking, grocery shopping. I was one of them. I wore a mask when it was appropriate and distanced, but still... I was in public.

The lid is going to slip.

[DanieRains]

5. Arrest The Owner I Hear It Isn't Healthy To Go To Jail In Chicago

Teach them a lesson, not like it will help all the sick people.

[DrToast]

8. I suspect this is going on everywhere

Now we know why case counts are slow to come down despite the shutdowns.

[Squinch]

11. Assholes.

[MagickMuffin]

12. What is truly sad about this party, is they ARE the most at risk

Not COOL! They probably have an idea if they are carriers, and whether or not they have and will continue to spread the virus.

[Igel]

13. They're still at low risk.

Better non-white and sick at 20 than white and sick at 60. The numbers broken down by demographics are horrible, but once broken down by race/ethnicity you still have to break them down male/female and then by age. The risk of death is sharply intersectional.

The age 0-30 group has less than 1% of the deaths, pretty consistently.

[MagickMuffin]

14. I guess we'll have to wait and see how this plays out

I just can't support people's decisions to social partying when they have no idea if they are carriers. Race and age matters not!

[LeftInTX]

15. They can infect older family members

I believe AA have more contact with extended family and more likely to have extended family living with them than white people do.