My niece is heading off to her first year in college in St. Petersburg, Florida in two weeks. Where she can buy a fake COVID-negative test for cheap, say her classmates. Fortunately, Florida has stopped all COVID reporting, so she'll be safe like an ostrich. SMH.
Friend of mine spent all day at a rapid testing site in Renton because his 19-year-old daughter went to a party with a kid who was visiting from ASU. 'sokay, though, he didn't have any symptoms. Six positive tests later I mean, I get it. Adults are constantly telling you everything you do is going to kill you, and all available data indicates that 'rona is going to kill you less than (a) weed (b) drinking (c) premarital sex (d) tiktok (e) Tide pods, which you by the way have never so much as taken out of a container yet Gram keeps insisting you shouldn't eat them. And your risk management cortex is rewiring so "risk" doesn't quite align between the somatic and intellectual spheres anyway. And fuckin' hell, the grownups who are supposed to figure this shit out, have done exactly fuckall since March. Neither Vietnam nor the Gulf War would have happened if people over 30 could be drafted.