1 wedding caused 170 outbreaks and several deaths in state

Jesus.

A religious congregation that took place in a Delhi mosque in March 2020 was a coronavirus super-spreader event, with more than 4,000 confirmed cases and at least 27 deaths. Around 40,000 people, including attendees and their contacts, were quarantined across the country.

The reason many people don't take the pandemic that seriously I think is because they haven't personally seen the effect of it. 

With that being said, why take the risk?


As far as I can tell there are 2 types of people who don't act according to warnings. The people who don't believe what they hear and the people who just don't care. It seems likely that the wedding guests are probably more the former.

That's what's disappointing.  Are ppl's pocketbooks, body slammed economic activity, shut offices & schools... the fcuking tv coverage not enough??... humanity is doomed because we're too fucking stupid to exist.

My own situation is that if I got COVID-19, I would probably feel careless in the eyes of others, like how did he get it??  2 gigs, both pretty social distanced.  I grocery once a week, take out with social distancing.  What's nice is that other than some summer travel, my daily routine hasn't changed all that much.  Besides, wearing a mask when it's cold in the morning is actually a bonus.

Darwinism in practice.

The “super spreader” event started with wedding attendees in the Katahdin region and spread to the community at large and to a nursing home in Madison. An attendee worked at the York County Jail, 220 miles (355 kilometers) away, where there are more than 70 cases. The state is also investigating an outbreak at a church in Sanford, home of the wedding's officiant.


None of those who died actually attended the wedding and reception. The first of the deaths was reported in Millinocket, where no one has tested positive for several weeks, the town manager said Wednesday. Six other deaths were residents of Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center in Madison.

I tend to agree that this story does not establish causal links particularly well. If some of the attendees were infected and then others at distant locales later developed the illness, then all that's been established is that the infected parties passed along the virus at some point; there's nothing here to indicate that their being at this wedding was the direct source of transmission--they might have transmitted it at any point throughout their daily routines elsewhere. Even an uptick in cases in the immediate vicinity doesn't definitively point to the event as being the direct source. It appears more to me that there was a surge in cases in the area, and officials were looking for anything they could pin it on, with this wedding being the most likely event they could come up with as a vector. Not especially rigorous detective work, imo.