Missouri Health Officials Suggest Self-Quarantine For Everyone in That Ozarks Coronavirus Stew

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Cramming into a crowded public pool is never pleasant: You have limited space to roam, bodies are everywhere, and you can’t help but feel like you’re steeping in a medley of questionable body odor and grime. One would imagine a fatal pandemic wreaking havoc around the world and killing over 100,000 Americans in the last few months would make the prospect of hitting up a packed pool full of strangers even more unappealing than usual. But for hundreds of partygoers in the Ozarks, the prospect of a covid-19 stew was just what the hypothetical Trump University degree-holding doctor ordered, to the horror of local health officials.

with Jodi Atkins, a woman who attended the pool party and appeared unbothered by the national outrage

. Atkins insisted that temperatures were taken at the door and that there was a big tub of hand sanitizer too. Of course,with covid-19 who do not always have fevers, and asymptomatic carriers of the virus may not display obvious signs of illness whatsoever. So temperature checks and hand sanitizer can only do so much for people crammed together without masks while a very contagious virus makes the rounds.

This didn’t seem to bother Atkins, who suggested that how one stays safe is a matter of personal preference.“If you’re worried about getting sick, obviously, or you want to distance yourself, it’s pretty much to each their own,” Akins told KSHB. “You just kind of have to do what you feel is right.” Gary Prewitt, the owner of Backwater Jack’s, told KSHB on May 19 that he anticipated 1,000 visitors on Memorial Day weekend with social distancing measures, but admitted that social distancing could be a challenge.“Keeping people apart six feet, we don’t know who’s in groups, who’s in families, we expect them to do that on their own,” Prewitt said. “We won’t let large groups gathering over 10Judging by the video shot as Prewitt’s establishment, spreading out was not enforced whatsoever.

 

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1053Rock Very doubtful these people will be so obliging.

Oh and some aftersun by the looks of it 😣

Yeah that’ll def happen

Lol. Not gonna happen.

CelesteHeadlee 'IF THEY HAVE ANY COMPASSION FOR OTHERS' is the key phrase there

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