The threat of serious illness.
In my day, it was AIDS. Now it is (or should be) coronavirus. Your experiences may be different.
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Closing down the hotels makes it a lot more difficult.
Without a place to crash, keep your stuff from getting stolen, or suitable surface for getting laid with a modicum of privacy, its amazing how quickly they could be kept in check.
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yeah, and when they hang with Grandma and Grandpa they will likely kill them
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Perfect example. I also hit puberty in the thick of AIDS and before we really umderstood it and yet millions of people were still having sex. Procreation has always trumped self preservation as an instinct.
When they closed the hotels in Daytona, before air B&B, they just booked hotels in Deland or the other surrounding towns.
Yet they’ve managed to do this across Europe, without “armed shock troopers”. Perhaps the “human species” you’re talking about is different than the one that inhabits continents other than North America.
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And here’s Madrid:
And in my first reply to you I linked to a BB article about Dublin. The fact that Paris was unable to clamp down on idiotic PSG fans does not mean that enforcing bans is impossible in a free society, only that some authorities have not managed to enforce them in some cases.
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However as a group teens and young adults in the post-HIV era had less sex, fewer sexual partners, and were more likely to use protection than their parents’ “free love” generation.
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Except we didn’t have a near nationwide shutdown of hotels back then. What would make you think Deland or other surrounding towns would have hotel space under such conditions? We already have several states which completely stopped its hotel industry in light of the pandemic.
AirBnB won’t provide for the volume of people the hotels would. There aren’t that many people willing to have their property trashed by teenagers.
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If New York and Las Vegas can practically lock down their cities, Paris and Miami Beach could have done so, if the local governments had the will to do so.
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This is just distressing, you don’t think it can get worse than the day before but it does.
ETA: Awww crap, wrong thread. Sorry
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“Authorities confirmed [more than 9,000 people were caught violating laws intended to slow the virus during the nationwide lockdown on Thursday alone, while more than 50,000 have been charged with breaking enforced social isolation rules since their introduction.”
Which means far more people are breaking the isolation rules (and probably quarantines) and just not getting caught. Its like they are doing everything possible to make the death toll as high as they can.
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Yup. I thought i posted this in the wrong thread but god forbid the result of spring breakers not giving a fuck will be this or far worse.
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On the upside, I think there is a public shaming culture developing in light of the self-isolation measures and lockdowns. The fact that this is being singled out as brazen stupidity is important here.
In local news for me, 2 wedding receptions were broken up by police, hundreds of people at the venue. Neighbors narc’ed on them from the outset.
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You believe most horny kids will listen to some politician and stay home, I belive they will chew through their own arm to get laid. We dissagree. Period.
We sure did, but sex was still the single greatest driver of our actions, consciously or otherwise. We where not having sex in the fields like our hippy parents and were relatively more selective but only by comparison to the most promiscuous generation since the Romans.
They closed it down, lets see what happens now.
I think Covfefe-19 works better.
Later that day the White House press secretary Sean Spicer implied that the tweet wasn’t a typo but was intentional: “I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.”[16]
Pass that to the QAnon bunch…
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Boris Johnson is the mayor?
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