Alabama: COVID-19 parties.The parties are a competition where people, who know they are sick with the highly contagious respiratory virus, attend parties and bet on who gets sick first.City Council member Sonya McKinstry told CNN that the parties are mainly being held in Tuscaloosa.
Infected people are encouraged to show up so others can contract the virus on purpose, she explained. Hundreds of teens exposed to coronavirus after attending Texas party, mayor confirms The first person confirmed by a doctor to be sick with the virus from attending the party wins the money made from ticket sales, McKinstry said.“They put money in a pot and they try to get COVID,” she told ABC News.“Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot.