'Do you really need to party?' WHO asks world's youth

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'Do you really need to party?' WHO asks world's youth

By Emma Farge

 

FILE PHOTO: People enjoy the hot weather at the beach in Bournemouth, Britain, June 24, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - Young people must curb their party instincts to help prevent new outbreaks of the COVID-19 disease, officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) pleaded on Wednesday.

 

Tired of lockdowns and eager to enjoy the northern hemisphere summer, young people in some countries have been contributing to resurgences by gathering again for parties, barbecues and holidays.

 

Even in Geneva, where the global U.N. health body is based, cabarets and clubs were closed last week after evidence that nearly half of new cases were coming from there.

 

"Younger people also need to take on board that they have a responsibility," said WHO emergencies chief and father-of-three Mike Ryan in an online discussion. "Ask yourself the question: do I really need to go to that party?"

 

Young people are less likely to suffer a severe form of the respiratory disease than their parents or grandparents, but the proportion of those infected aged 15-24 has risen three-fold in about five months, WHO data shows.

 

Ryan said young people were often reticent in giving their details or disclosing friends' names to contact tracers. "It's tough but it is what is needed to stop the virus," he said.

 

Swiss newspapers said that in one night club in Zurich from which cases emerged recently, partygoers had given fake names including "Donald Duck".

 

As well as reducing risks to others, WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said young people should be careful as even a mild version of the disease might have long-term consequences.

 

(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-08-06

 

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[Credo 10,357]

Yes, that is what young people do.  Unless there is really strong enforcement, kids will be kids.  They will party, they will live recklessly and they will throw caution to the wind.   You can't really expect them to act like responsible adults when they aren't either responsible or adult.   

 

[BritManToo 45,399]

WHO wants everyone to lock themselves in their rooms at home alone for the rest of their life.

It's not gonna happen.

[Yinn 10,759]

9 minutes ago, Credo said:

Yes, that is what young people do.  Unless there is really strong enforcement, kids will be kids.  They will party, they will live recklessly and they will throw caution to the wind.   You can't really expect them to act like responsible adults when they aren't either responsible or adult.   

 

I like read international news.

 

It not only youth. Old idiots same.

 

Everyday the story in UK news is about when can go a Pub, holidays to Spain, beauty shop, etc. Covid parties.

This things will spread covid sure. Selfish idiots. 

 

In USA similar, and fighting together so much, lefty and right, Black and white, republican and Democrat and fight statues.

Selfish idiots.

 

Sweden same.

 

They not serious fight the problem. If only half fight, will be loose. =fight for many month not win.

 

Thailand, everyone help together and control covid about 5 weeks. Fight 100%= successful. 

 

I show in red color what happen if help together, can win quickly. Everyone must help. 

 

I see the international news and I angry have so many selfish maskholes, anti vaxxers, anti tracing, anti social distancing. 

They do everything help virus spread= people die, economy terrible. 

I hate them.

 

 

 

[Tug 22,416]

Imo it’s kinda like smoking cigarettes everyone knows it’s bad but (espically) the young if they don’t see the effect they just blow it off plus when I was young I’d pursue the lady’s no matter what the consequences throwing caution to the wind lol caught quite a few to lol

[OneMoreFarang 27,640]

Looking at the world today it should not be too difficult for the young people to see what the older generations f$#$# up over the last decades and centuries.

The world is anyhow going down the drain and life for the now young people will be likely difficult when they are older.

Having that in mind I think it's not too difficult to understand when they want to have some fun in their life.

Is there behavior responsible? No.

Was the behavior from all the older generations always responsible? No

Nobody should be surprised that the young act now like the former young acted 50 years ago.

[BritManToo 45,399]

6 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Looking at the world today it should not be too difficult for the young people to see what the older generations f$#$# up over the last decades and centuries.

Please, I didn't mess up anything, nobody asked my opinion.

The old rich folk who own the world are the ones to blame.

The corporations and governments bought and owned by the old rich people are also to blame.

Try placing the blame on the people who caused the mess, not the majority of innocent bystanders without the influence to play any part in the game.

Edited August 6, 2020 by BritManToo

[OneMoreFarang 27,640]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Please, I didn't mess up anything, nobody asked my opinion.

The old rich folk who own the world are the ones to blame.

The corporations and governments bought and owned for the old rich people are also to blame.

Try placing the blame on the people who caused the mess, not the majority of innocent bystanders without the influence to play any part in the game.

In part you are right.

But at least in the democracies in this world voters could have voted for better politicians all over the world.

[BritManToo 45,399]

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

In part you are right.

But at least in the democracies in this world voters could have voted for better politicians all over the world.

'They' (the people that own everything) never put up 'any better politicians' we could vote for.

Trump Vs Hillary .............. May Vs Corbyn ............... that's the problem, not the solution.

It's a stacked deck right from the start, the only way to stop them is by French/Russian revolution methods.

 

Kill them all, and their entire families, and their children, and the people they went to school with, their bankers and lawyers, start again with all the old power wiped out. If you let any of their relatives or friends survive, it will all start again. (was that too extreme?)

Edited August 6, 2020 by BritManToo

[hotandsticky 1,599]

12 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

'They' (the people that own everything) never put up 'any better politicians' we could vote for.

Trump Vs Hillary .............. May Vs Corbyn ............... that's the problem, not the solution.

It's a stacked deck right from the start, the only way to stop them is by French/Russian revolution methods.

 

Kill them all, and their entire families, and their children, and the people they went to school with, their bankers and lawyers, start again with all the old power wiped out. If you let any of their relatives or friends survive, it will all start again. (was that too extreme?)

 

 

It WAS extreme......................

 

 

But probably accurate  -  and certainly effective.

[hotandsticky 1,599]

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

I like read international news.

 

It not only youth. Old idiots same.

 

Everyday the story in UK news is about when can go a Pub, holidays to Spain, beauty shop, etc. Covid parties.

This things will spread covid sure. Selfish idiots. 

 

In USA similar, and fighting together so much, lefty and right, Black and white, republican and Democrat and fight statues.

Selfish idiots.

 

Sweden same.

 

They not serious fight the problem. If only half fight, will be loose. =fight for many month not win.

 

Thailand, everyone help together and control covid about 5 weeks. Fight 100%= successful. 

 

 

Do you really think Thailand has no idiots ?

 

 

Your government understood this very well and were sh!tting themselves about Songkran. They didn't trust the masses not to act like the idiots (and they are idiots) that you referred to in other countries. It was even necessary to have provincial bans on alcohol sales because the authorities knew that booze and Thais together do make a good recipe for the "everyone helping together".

 

I wouldn't preach too much about how great the Thais are compared to the rest of the world. Thailand was lucky to escape with very few cases of CV19 and the government (unlike many others) acted swiftly and decisively to control the spread....... the Lumpini boxing debacle showed what the Thais could have been capable of if there had been greater incidence of infection. 

 

[Matzzon 13,666]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

And then there are people asking why in the world UK has such a big problem with cases and death out of the covid pandemic.

Words are too weak. Let´s just look at the picture above, and all will stand clear for the masses. Morons!

[Scott 16,320]

Off-topic post removed.  Please try to stay on topic.  

 

[wombat 2,983]

you gotta fight for your right to party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

[Bluespunk 53,200]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

 

"Younger people also need to take on board that they have a responsibility," said WHO emergencies chief and father-of-three Mike Ryan in an online discussion. "Ask yourself the question: do I really need to go to that party?"

While I understand the sentiment, you ask many (not all I know) teenagers that question and they will look at you like you’re insane.