re: Coronavirus parties in Tuscaloosa?

I posted this on another board and I’ll post it here.

I’m in a unique position where I talk to locals and students on a daily basis. There have been rumors of these parties for over a month, all from people who live on the other side of town, in the 06. I haven’t spoken to a single student who had even heard of these corona parties, and this was well before these articles came out. The common response was, “are we having parties? Yeah. Are they parties to get corona? No. I don’t want to get Covid.”

I would also like to add that not all of the locals are buying it either. I think one article said there was a party in a field. That’s true, but the party was a bunch of local high school kids, not UA.