You had to go to bars to get drunk! Now you’re infected.

I’m disappointed in our younger generations: they had to go to bars without masks. They couldn’t corral their discipline and stay home, going out only for necessities. I mean, to get extremely sick and possibly ruin your lungs all because you had to go to the bars and socialize without masks? I can understand getting sick if you had to perform one of the essential jobs – I get that. But because you just couldn’t stay out of a bar? Like the bar is the most important thing in your life? Even restaurants are a tad bit better because you might need food and don’t have any at home. But bars?

Or how about lounging in pools with a drink in hand? Was that really necessary? Couldn’t you have found a safer relaxation instead of associating with a bunch of people, possibly strangers, without masks or social distancing?

Come on!

Now the coronavirus is surging in places like Arizona, Florida and Texas. Currently, the surges are mostly from the younger generations but there are signs in Florida that the older generations are getting it too. And the younger ones are not immune to the more severe effects of the disease: hospitalization rates are rising. It remains to be seen if death rates go up.

And even if you do survive a hospital stay, you might have lungs scarred for life or some other lingering impact from the coronavirus. In other words, you could be ruining your health for the rest of your life. The next time a disease, or even the coronavirus, hits you, you might not be so lucky because you’ve already been scarred by Covid-19.

Going out partying without social distancing or masks is like playing Russian roulette: you just don’t know who will handle the virus okay and who will face a severe outcome.

A story I’ve read: a Californian with diabetes went to a friend’s party after diligently heeding the safety precautions for a few months; he just had to go out. He caught the virus, put on Facebook that he regretted socializing, and then died the next day. The really sad thing is one of his friends went to the party, knowing full well that he had the Covid-19 virus.

With friends like that, who needs enemies!

That “friend” should be charged with murder. He claims that he didn’t know that he could be contagious. My stance is: such claim of ignorance is no excuse. We’ve been told to social distance and isolate at home if we have the virus: ignorance does not absolve you from the responsibility to do the right thing.

I read of another instance where a person held a party for his friends (he could be a she) and knew that he was infected with the virus. He knew he had the virus and still, he proceeded to have a party. Of course, some people got infected.

So, your “friends” may be infecting you.

If the elderly starts getting sick and dying, maybe we can call these generations the generations that killed their elders. All because they had to go out and have some fun!

Because we didn’t do the right thing to flatten the curve and then reduce it back in April and May, like the way the Europeans seems to have done, we’re going to have to be patient about the new normal a LOT longer. Our pain, economic and otherwise, will be greatly extended. This time we got to do it right: listen to the doctors and wear your masks and do social distancing.

This July 4th, please do the right thing and celebrate at home.