Coronavirus: Los Angeles Response, "Let's Party"

Back to the end of 2020, Eric Feigl-Ding tweeted on how 20%-40% of front-line workers were declining the COVID-19 vaccine. Obviously, someone chimed in that those must be Trump supporters. I basically responded back in a few tweets that I didn't buy that. Part of my reasoning was all the underground parties going on in Los Angeles. Those parties just don't sound like parties that Trump supporters would attend. This is a topic I've done at least some research on. Back on Dec 5th I wrote a blog post about the topic. 

Let's just fast forward to what happened on New Year's Eve. Los Angeles Magazine (Jan 5) gives some details:

By midnight, packs of people were lined up in the street outside the secret venue, waiting for the doorman to wave them in. Inside, a couple hundred attendees, most of them unmasked, danced to rap and loudly cheered the arrival of 2021. They weren’t the only ones, of course. Miles away in the San Fernando Valley, a rowdy gang of TikTok influencers hosted upward of 600 people at a house party in Encino, where mask-free partiers smooshed shoulder to shoulder to count down to midnight. In Van Nuys, 50 revelers gathered at a ball-drop party hosted by the clothing line StockedUp, where young, maskless partiers danced and screamed over the music in anticipation of the new year. “Happy New Years. We fucking made it,” L.A.-based rapper Lil’ Death Star, who reportedly attended the Van Nuys party, said in a video posted to Instagram. “A lot of n—as didn’t make it to 2021. We did!” 

Am I the only one wondering if the journalist went to any of these parties or just wrote up the article based on what was seen on social media? In the article, there is a long description of a party that happened in mid-November. You've got to think the journalist was there.

It would be interesting to see how COVID-19 spreads through these types of gatherings. Back in May 2020, we learned about a 29-year-old South Korean man who went out for a night of partying, which resulted in 100 people testing positive. Unfortunately, I don't think our contact tracing in California is as good as what South Korea had at that time (as they are having more cases currently -- though far less than that in the United States when adjusted for population -- maybe they're having some difficulties doing contact tracing at the moment).

Anyways, back to the Trump supporters and COVID-19. I would not be at all surprised if 90% of those who were partying it up on New Year's Eve were Bernie Sanders supporters.