Tennessee woman gets coronavirus after bragging about not social distancing

[RandySF]

A 21-year-old Tennessee woman who bragged on social media about not taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously has been diagnosed with the deadly illness, according to a report.

Ireland Tate joked about not following instructions to stay home and practice social distancing amid the pandemic just days before she fell sick, news station WZTV reported.

In a social media video, the Nashville resident told her followers that she’s “aware that we’re supposed to be self-quarantining and social distancing” to “keep everyone safe” — but that she wasn’t worried.

“Cool. I get it. I just don’t think that I’m going to get the virus,” Tate said in the video.


https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/21-year-old-who-posted-about-not-social-distancing-gets-coronavirus/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

[Cha]

1. COVID19 KARMA Gonna Get Ya!

[SheltieLover]

2. 📣Paging Karma for clean up in aisle 2

WTF? Wonder how sick she is? 😳

[Cha]

3. That's what happened to Boris Johnson, too.. he

scoffed at the CV.. shook hands and went off on Holiday in the middle of it.

Their arrogant ignorance is mind boggling.

[SheltieLover]

32. It sure is mind boggling!

[whistler162]

23. Karma well you know she comes and goes....

like a chameleon.

[greenjar_01]

4. The fact that the NY Post is now clowning on these numbskulls is a very bad sign for the

COVID-10-T protesters.

Also, what kind of a dipshit names their child "Ireland Tate." Talk about predicting her fate!

[ALBliberal]

8. I like the name. But sadly she didn't listen to the overwhelming

knowledgeable people urging her to use common sense.

[Caliman73]

48. Common sense is not that common, especially for 21 year olds.

Sorry to any 21 year olds on DU. I remember my choices around that age. Experience is a harsh but effective teacher in life. Hopefully she will survive this situation without too much damage. Hopefully she will take something away from it and not be so quick to think herself invincible in the future.

And MOST HOPEFULLY, she did not infect other people because of her own naive arrogance.

[Blue_Adept]

22. It's the name her parents gave her. But sure, let's dunk on her for it.

[Mariana]

26. The poster clearly dunked on her parents, not on her.

Also, what kind of a dipshit names their child "Ireland Tate." Talk about predicting her fate!

Reading is FUNdamental.

[Tanuki]

24. Alex Baldwin and Kim Basinger named one of their daughters Ireland.

[Silent3]

33. There must be some reference I'm not getting about her name

The only thing I can think of is "tate" being like "potato"... and taking the name as a reference to the Irish potato famine??? Seems like that way too much of a stretch for what you're getting at.

[riversedge]

5. and how many has she exposed the virus to???

[wnylib]

15. That's the really annoying part.

She bragged about not not distancing because she didn't believe she would get it. Did not get it that the reason for distancing.is to stop the chain of transmission. Selfishly made it all about herself and whether or not she would get it.

[crickets]

43. +1

[TeamPooka]

6. You can't fix stupid and you can't quarantine it either.

[RandySF]

9. But nature can cull it.

[Mariana]

27. She's 21, so it's very unlikely to cull her.

If she spread it around, it might cull some of her older relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. But she'll probably come out of it just fine.

[Bengus81]

30. Maybe not depending on her health going in but it will be HELL

Here's a statistic in Kansas of positive tests. There is a higher percentage in the 20-34 age group than in two groups that represent 65-84 year olds. At that age most figure nothing can hurt them and that's why CV will explode when all those "good ole boy" Governors re-open their States.

[SheltieLover]

34. This!👆

Absolutely!

[Baclava]

7. So the doorknob lickers aren't immune after all, who knew

[luvallpeeps]

10. I am the opposite of her.

I am following all best practices, and I'm still scared shitless. They were looking at an ice arena to store overflow bodies from the morgue. I FUCKING GET IT! And the thought of me possibly having it and be asymptomatic is troubling. I am really sick of being home, but it is what the fuck it is. Anyone who is cavalier about this virus, please, get your guns, and giant trump flags and report to that Walmart in Texas. Make one trip. Little revival in the parking lot.

[struggle4progress]

11. "I don't believe all this media hype about the dangers of Russian Roulette. Oh, I mean, like,

sure it's possible to blow your brains out playing, but I really just don't believe it will happen to me"

[SheltieLover]

36. Irvin Yalom's "Existential Psychotherapy" addresses this quite well

Excellent read! 👍

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_Psychotherapy_(book)

Existential Psychotherapy is a book about existential psychotherapy by the American psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, in which the author, addressing clinical practitioners, offers a brief and pragmatic introduction to European existential philosophy, as well as to existential approaches to psychotherapy. He presents his four ultimate concerns of life—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—and discusses developmental changes, psychopathology and psychotherapeutic strategies with regard to these four concerns.

Their demonstration of personal "specialness" is really on display these days.

[Journeyman]

12. I repeat, even if I believed it was all a hoax I'd keep my mouth shut. Karma's a bitch . . .

[SheltieLover]

37. See #36 for book reference on this topic.

Amazing, isn't it?

[DFW]

13. I wonder if she believes that doctors can't cure her, only God can

I hope so.

People like that don't deserve the same priority for medical care as those who tried NOT to get sick.

[Warpy]

14. She's a 21 year old golden girl

and while I didn't have any illusions about being invulnerable to illness at that age, I still did enough magical thinking in other areas to make up for it. 21 year olds get to be that dumb.

If it persists 4 years later, then we can call their sanity into question.

[DFW]

19. When I turned 21, I had my over-the-hill birthday party

Figured I'd get it out of the way early, so I didn't have to worry about the timing later on.

[Warpy]

41. In the south in the early 60s

you were an old maid if you weren't barried by 21. High school girls had weddings, some as young as 16, I often wonder what happened to those poor girls.

So I clutched my ragged spinster's cloak around me and decamped for Boston. The expiration date there was in the 40s.

[DFW]

47. Times have changed

The woman who did my teeth cleaning in Dallas got married--for the first time!-- at age 57. She said she had just never met the right guy, and now she did. Spinster, schminster!

[MrsMatt]

35. My daughter is 22

and she's never been that dumb.

She thinks a lot of her peers are completely lacking in common sense.

[Warpy]

51. I wasn't, either

It's just another reason I got the hell out of Dixie as soon as I could.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. That story was posted here a few weeks ago.

She did post a followup after she got it, and she regretted her earlier cavalier attitude.

The New York Post is just getting clicks from old stories.

[DFW]

20. That is always the big question

If she learned from it and got a lot wiser, then there's hope for her yet, although it's awful that the awakening has to come from a disease that could just as easily have killed her. You shouldn't need to drive into a tree to figure out that driving at 120 mph on rural roads is foolish.

[Chellee]

49. From the article:

<Tate said she likely got the virus from a pal in her group of friends and she’s now warning other young people to stay home.

“While it may not be affecting you, you could be affecting someone’s grandma or grandpa or aunt or uncle or sister,” Tate told the outlet.>

[GoneOffShore]

21. And she has since 'made amends'. I'll give her credit for that.

[Mariana]

29. Right, she's "made amends".

How does that work, exactly? If someone dies or sustains permanent organ damage because she was spreading it around, how is she going to "make amends" for that?

[SheltieLover]

38. This!👆

[Solomon]

40. Exactly. How did she make amends?

[tazkcmo]

17. She could have stopped...

...at "think".

[Locrian]

25. "I just don't think that I'm going to get the virus" - covid19: "hold my beer" - n/t

[Bengus81]

28. It's FUN being around other MAGOTS!!

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[Boomerproud]

42. That's a hot, sexy crowd isn't it?

They're all bound by stupidity and hate.

[Bengus81]

44. That girl in the red hoodie--like WHY the hell am I here??

[USALiberal]

45. You think every dem is hot and sexy? Why make fun of appearance? Nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. "It feels like someone is sitting on my chest...

at all times,” she said. “It’s really hard to breathe. I’ve coughed until my throat has bled.”

You asked for it, you got it.

[MissMillie]

39. People always forget the 2nd part of the story

For a lot of people who contract the virus, maybe it isn't a big deal. Some never get sick or show symptoms.

But.... they can still spread it. And they can spread it to people who may not be physically equipped to fight off the virus.

And then there's the 3rd part of the story... those people can spread it.


And so on.

[HAB911]

46. WAH WAH

[MagickMuffin]

50. Hindsight is 2020

It's interesting that Ireland Tate decided to seek medical treatment.

At least some saving grace is she is now warning her careless friends.