Harrowing images of Memorial Day revelers partying this past weekend depict a simmering human soup, in addition to what looks like very real coronavirus infection risk
Photo: @scottpasmoretv/Twitter Harrowing images of Memorial Day revelers partying at the Lake of the Ozarks this past weekend depict a simmering human soup, a beer-soaked, sunburned bacchanal, in addition to what looks like very real coronavirus infection risk.
The Missouri vacation spot saw record numbers of largely maskless vacationers hanging out on boats and standing very close together at pool parties in big groups, flouting social-distancing rules that are still very much in place in the state. As a result of the crowded, chlorinated holiday, the St. Louis County Department of Public Health issued a travel advisory urging those who attended the event to quarantine themselves after possible exposure.
Missouri is currently in the first phase of its reopening, with businesses that have been closed for months starting to host patrons and reemploy workers again. Public officials expressed frustration that partygoers would risk exposing themselves or unknowingly spreading the coronavirus just as the state has flattened its virus curve — and after 694 people in the state have died of the virus, according to the New York Times.
Memorial Day weekend took place as the coronavirus death toll in the United States neared 100,000 people, Americans who died in underequipped hospitals and whose loved ones were prevented from saying good-bye or even attending their funerals. And it occurred as states begin to slowly reopen, prompting fears about a second wave of infections. A swim-up bar is already a concept of questionable hygiene — What if people spill?! They must spill.
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