Looks like those kids are not the only ones partying during the pandemic in Miami.
This is the guy that recently lost the race for governor to the current one. The story leaves out that the guy who ODd on meth was not “his friend” but one of two male prostitutes. Gillum just admitted to being on meth himself when it happened and is getting checked into rehab. The irony.
Could you please stop ascribing your n=1 experiences and motivations to an entire age group?
Where does this come from? Certainly not a representative sample size. This sounds like something a small child would think about people who came of age in the 60s.
Again, where does this come from? It’s like you think there were three generations (millennials, boomers, and prudes) and everyone in each generation has exactly the same experiences.
I am describing the experiences and motivations that I experienced and observed of the people around me. Could you please not assume more than what I say.
Since I was not alive in the 60s, my undestanding of the Sexual Revolution that came with the couter culture and the advancement of contraceptives was from anecdotal conversations, documentaries, films, etc. If you where at Woodstock personally and your experience was counter to what I understand to have occurred then I am certainly open to your story.
No two people have the same experience much less an entire generation. But that is ok, because it is not what anyone with any experience in life would believe. That said, are you saying that there are no cultural influences that vary throught time and influence entire swaths of kid’s behavior and their perception of the world and it’s values?
All levels of government are telling these idiots to not group up, they closed all bars, restaurants, and clubs and yet they still decide to party:
Gotta show that virus who’s boss right? /s
Yes, and the plural of anecdote isn’t data. If they’re your experiences, fine. If not, then stop saying things like:
I expected as much, which is why you didn’t really get the AIDS reference above. You came of age in a world where AIDS already existed, which is completely different than being a sexually active adult and watching this mysterious STD pop up out of nowhere and start killing people. It’s an understatement to say that’s a chilling effect.
That means something different than you probably think it means. Women became more liberated, and non monogamous, non heterosexual lifestyles became more visible, and sex outside of marriage became more accepted. Two related things happened here. First, researchers really started studying human sexual behavior in earnest, and were publishing these studies. Suddenly, they shed light on what was considered normal, which is that there is no normal. Previously, all of these things were on the down low, which is not at all to say they weren’t happening.
Secondly, the power dynamics shifted from men controlling mostly everything about sex to women playing a more equal role. This is more about equality than promiscuity.
So no, the sexual revolution wasn’t all about people suddenly wanting to have more sex. It was about equality and openness with regard to sex and accepting human sexuality as a wide and highly variable spectrum. It also didn’t happen all at once, but it started in the 1910s with first wave feminism and publicly available birth control and continued through the 1940s with landmark studies of human sexuality.
I was not at Woodstock, so I can’t say that it was or wasn’t mostly about sex. I would like to think of it as a major cultural touchstone, albeit one with plenty of sex and drugs. Basically:
No, I’m saying the opposite. I’m saying the AIDS crisis had an effect, and if we could adapt to that, we can adapt to the coronavirus outbreak.
And Lombardy just did the same, nearly 5,000 deaths later.
You want a ton of unnecessary deaths, do what the Italians do. So far I am seeing places like New York, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and other vacation spots doing the responsible thing, and it looks like its working.
I want the idiots to stay inside, I did not believe they would and unfortunately I was right as you can see from the sandbar story I posted a few posts up.
This I like! Make it so!
And, remarkably,
Nothing is the same as anything else. I posted an oppinion that has consistently proven correct since posting it. I said they would party regardless of politicians or danger and they are all standing on a sandbar right now thick as thieves as we speak. I am not looking for a pedantic discussion down a pointless rabbit hole so I digress.
Die broke in an insane asylum?
Meanwhile, in Australia:
Fucking idiots
I wonder how many of these kids are going to head back home to find their parents won’t let them in the house for a couple of weeks?
Slightly off topic but I wonder what the long term effects of the pandemic will be on younger children, if it persist for long enough to be more than just a childhood anecdote? Similar to how children that grew up during the depression were effected for the rest of their lives. In 80ish years, will many parents need to remind the kids to not hug grandma because she grew up during the 2020 pandemic and she just never got used to unnecessary proximity?
Well, you can already see that in China divorce rates go up. In isolation, domestic violence increases and some people develop PTSD. So it’s obvious the children will be affected. I can already see that with my three kids after schools have been closed for less than two weeks.
But you’re still allowed to hug people in your household, and should do that a lot these days.
In a way, I can relate to the spring breakers. I mean, why stop partying to save the people who left you a world fucked up by capitalism, topped up by a neat climate catastrophe? It’s not like they gave a single fuck for the future of these kids anyway.
