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With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. That's a pretty hard lesson to unlearn. They carries a lot of momentum. Like with World
by eplatzek 1y ago
With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. That's a pretty hard lesson to unlearn. They carries a lot of momentum.
Like with World Wars there's been a generational impact that changed how people relate to one another. The tribal momentum, of one monkey teaching the next, gets lost.
- xeromal 1y agoI'm sure COVID had something to do with it but I think partying is another casualty of social media. Similar to discord for gaming, talking to your random peers has completely fell off
- openbankerX 1y agoprices too, partying is expensive and should be the first line item cut in hard times.
- parpfish 1y agoPartying in the article also includes “dropping by a friends house”, which is cheap/free
- carl_dr 1y agoExcept the graph shows this was happening way before COVID. The internet and how that has changed how people relate is much more likely the reason.
- api 1y agoOne of the first things I did with the net was to connect with people to go out and party with. Amazing how that morphed into zombie doom scrolling, something I would never have predicted.
- luckydata 1y agoin my opinion the largest effect is how we build cities. Having to drive everywhere and the separation between commercial, residential and industrial areas of american cities is very clearly a driver of this isolation.
- southernplaces7 1y ago>With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. Given the mortality rate for people typically in the partying age group (and especially those under 30), you were more likely to die in a traffic accident on your way to or back from the party, or from alcohol poisoning, than from a case of COVID acquired there. Let's not exaggerate. From the NIH: The median IFR for COVID based on age groups: 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years. The 1918 Flu it was certainly not.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoSome people didn't want to get it even if they were guaranteed to survive, because they could pass it to others who were more vulnerable to it.
- southernplaces7 1y agoThis yes and a fair worry for many who lived with older parents, grandparents etc, but the original comment mentioned an illness killing "you" assuming the partygoer, who, given the context of the article, is probably going to be a lot younger than anything close to elderly (though elderly people should party too. Socializing should never be under-estimated for helping vitality)
- sltkr 1y agoTo be pedantic, it's still possible for people to modify their behavior based on mistaken beliefs (in this case, that COVID is really dangerous, when it isn't for healthy young people). Though I don't think this explains the actual trend in this case.
- watwut 1y agoHealthy young people still do not want to spread it to grandma or whoever. That is something frequent forgotten by these arguments - not everyone is sociopath and young people sometimes think about other people.
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