Reports of people purposely trying to infect themselves with COVID-19 have been everywhere — but it could be BS
in the 1980s purposefully trying to infect themselves with HIV in order to gain access to isolation camps for people who had tested positive.in response to the state lockdowns, only for one of them to unironically contract the virus. But that too wasn’t exactly an effort to intentionally become infected.
But none of this serves as evidence that people are gathering en masse to clandestinely infect themselves with a potentially fatal illness, and some health officials have already started walking back this claim. The director of community health for Walla Walla County in Washington was in a local paper earlier this week promoting the idea of coronavirus parties, but had to later amend the statement, telling thethe county was “hearing reports of parties where infected people were present” but did not have evidence that people “had attended out of a desire to be exposed.”
In other words, people had contracted COVID-19 from attending parties, but did not attend for the purpose of contracting COVID-19 — a far more believable, if not less headline-grabby, version of events. But at that point, the story of coronavirus parties had already been credulously aggregated by multiple national news outlets, and the Washington State Department of Health, however, has yet to amend its statement or its original tweet.
Ultimately, the coronavirus-party story went viral for the same reason that all social distancing-shaming content does: it gives people cooped up in their homes a reason to pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves for their own sacrifices.
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