This makes me feel some type of way. I find it frustrating when people who party recklessly are aware that they’re being reckless, yet they complain that the pandemic situation’s getting worse. Like no shit. People are dying every single day from this and “running out of patience” to not party is just so frustrating. All the people who had to move back home (myself included), international students, etc. we want to go back to campus learning but reckless partiers make up a big percentage of people fucking it up. That’s why this is so infuriating. Halloween was just an excuse for people to go out and get shit-faced drunk, but is one night (or multiple nights) really worth potentially you and someone you care about dying? Being “smart about COVID-19 for 7 months” and then recklessly partying just throws all that hard work out the window. Does that mean people are going to party for Thanksgiving too? What about Christmas Eve and Christmas? And New Years too? And every other “special occasion” people will use as an excuse to party? Well fuck at this rate, it looks like spring and fall quarter next year will also be online. We’re paying thousands of $$$ ($$$$$$$$ for OOS or poor international kids who have to wake up at 3 am for class) to sit like a shimp and stare at a computer screen all day long on zoom university and people are STILL partying??? I literally just don’t understand and it makes me mad af that partiers are just delaying when we could step foot on campus again. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.