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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Sleepovers and worse.” What could be worse? Do tell![/quote]

Graduation parties. Summer pool parties. Beach trips.[/quote]

We are going to all 3 this summer!!+!+
Woo hoo!![/quote]

Pool parties and beach trips are likely much safer than hanging out with a bunch of people all night in a still room, breathing the same air.[/quote]

Umm they're proving decidedly not. Something about standing in a tepid pool of water, inhaling the spray, and laying immobile for hours next to way too many people spreads virus...who knew. Not to mention all the tactile contact between strangers and friends.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/22/teenagers-coronavirus-senior-week-delaware/

https://people.com/health/ohio-teens-test-positive-for-coronavirus-after-trip-myrtle-beach/

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You don’t think sharing a house and attending crowded gatherings were the problem but the beach?

My family  (two parents, two small children) went to a beach house that we rented by ourselves, never got within 6 ft of strangers in any context , didn’t go out anywhere, and then drove home. I’m not rushing for my covid test even though the beach was in a hotspot location.[/quote]

Exactly. People who point fingers need to read up a little more on the relative risk of various activities and also think about what beach week really is. It's piling into a rental house with a bunch of friends and party-hopping from one house to another. I'm guessing some of these posters were not the beach week types and therefore don't know what it looks like. I remember drinking too much, wandering to random parties at so-and-so's friend's rental house, kissing guys I hardly knew. It wasn't exactly responsible behavior then, and it certainly isn't now. But the beach itself is the least risky part of the equation. Of course if large groups of teens are gathering with other large groups of teens on the beach, that increases the risk for those groups. But it is really dumb to shame a family for going to the beach and staying away from others. Not at all the same thing.[/quote]

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