Poll of the Day > Aussie Teen gets busted for Partying with COVID...

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/teen-charged-allegedly-partying-nightclub-005703754.html

Do you think he should be found Guilty? (Poll Question)

Provided he actually did what he's accused of (which seems exceedingly likely), absolutely.

You can potentially be prosecuted under assault or even murder statutes for knowingly having sex with partners if you have HIV/AIDS, if you fail to inform them of your condition.

If you know you have a potentially fatal disease, and are actively engaging in behavior that can actively spread it to unknowing victims, then yes, you should eat all of the shit.

What a fucking douchebag. Effectively undoing the sacrifices of countless people. Piece of shit deserves a steep fine.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

You can potentially be prosecuted under assault or even murder statutes for knowingly having sex with partners if you have HIV/AIDS, if you fail to inform them of your condition.

If you know you have a potentially fatal disease, and are actively engaging in behavior that can actively spread it to unknowing victims, then yes, you should eat all of the shit.

The flu can also be fatal. It isn't like he was partying in a old people home.

Baardmeester posted...

The flu can also be fatal.

Why are people still making this comparison? It's not March 2020 anymore. Everyone knows that Covid is vastly more dangerous than influenza.

With all the poisoness stuff shouldnt they be use to this?

Baardmeester posted...

The flu can also be fatal.

When the flu becomes the third-largest cause of death globally, we should probably punish people for willfully spreading that as well.



Baardmeester posted...

It isn't like he was partying in a old people home.

That's not really a defense, because younger people can still die from it, or suffer potentially fatal complications.

A friend of mine in his 40s who caught it still had to spend multiple days in a hospital, and said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced in his entire life. And he still had issues related to it months afterward.



adjl posted...

Why are people still making this comparison? It's not March 2020 anymore. Everyone knows that Covid is vastly more dangerous than influenza.

Because a large percentage of the population are stupid and/or disingenuous.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Because a large percentage of the population are stupid and/or disingenuous.

I know that, and you know that, but I'm hoping some day one of these individuals will actually attempt to stand by their nonsense and pretend to not be stupid, rather than slinking off in shame every single time I ask them and hoping nobody notices.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

When the flu becomes the third-largest cause of death globally, we should probably punish people for willfully spreading that as well.

That's not really a defense, because younger people can still die from it, or suffer potentially fatal complications.

A friend of mine in his 40s who caught it still had to spend multiple days in a hospital, and said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced in his entire life. And he still had issues related to it months afterward.

Because a large percentage of the population are stupid and/or disingenuous.

They have about the same mortality rate. And the average age of people dying due to covid is 82. If you are under 50 covid is a big fat nothing burger.

Lmao this is gonna be good

Baardmeester posted...

They have about the same mortality rate.

This is wrong.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201218/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-damaging-than-flu-data-shows#1

COVID-19 is roughly 3-to-4 times deadlier than influenza based on hospitalized patients, and that was based on the 2018/2019 flu season, which was a particularly deadly one.

Baardmeester posted...

And the average age of people dying due to covid is 82.

This is also wrong.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/

Of the roughly 800,000 deaths in the US caused by COVID, roughly half of them are in people over 70. I have no idea what the mean age of death is, but it sure as fuck isn't 82.

Baardmeester posted...

If you are under 50 covid is a big fat nothing burger.

Unless you die, of course. Which over 50,000 people in the US (under 50) have.

Baardmeester posted...

They have about the same mortality rate.

Covid has killed more Americans every month since September 1st than influenza does in an average year. Even if you could claim that they had the same mortality rate (which you're not exactly citing), it is unambiguously obvious to anyone that's paid even a modicum of attention that Covid is more dangerous than the flu. Suggesting otherwise is nothing more than the desperate fantasy of people so deeply buried in their denial that they understand nothing about the world around them.

darkknight109 posted...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201218/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-damaging-than-flu-data-shows#1

COVID-19 is roughly 3-to-4 times deadlier than influenza based on hospitalized patients, and that was based on the 2018/2019 flu season, which was a particularly deadly one.

And that was published over a year ago, before Delta made everything much worse. Basing it on hospitalized patients also distorts the data: influenza's hospitalization rate is quite a bit lower than Covid's (though rather difficult to quantify, given how many cases of the flu go unconfirmed).