New Orleans Swingers Party turns into Covid Superspreader
A swingers event organiser clearly didn’t get the memo about the global pandemic going on because he thought it was a good idea to organise a swinging event with 300 guests. Unsurprisingly, bumping uglies with a total stranger in 2020 comes with a few extra risks and out of the 300 people who attended the ‘Naughty in Nawlins’ swingers convention, 41 of them tested positive for Covid.
Bob Hannaford, organiser for ‘Naughty in Nawlins’, did later admit he fucked up but it was a bit late by then. Here’s what Bob had to say about his giant boo boo:
We had five people that tested positive on Monday. On Tuesday we got up to 14. On Wednesday we jumped up to 29 cases and by our last count, we have 41 positive tests, out of 300 people. We have no idea how many people got tested after our event, nor if anyone tested positive and didn’t tell us. There could also be people that are positive, but without symptoms, so they never got tested.
If I could go back in time, I would not produce this event again. Even though most of the 41 positive cases have mostly been asymptomatic or very mild cases. The reason I wouldn’t is that I know of two people who had a tougher time and they were suffering. One of them, a good friend of mine, was hospitalized in serious condition. If I thought for one minute that he or anyone would end up in the hospital, I would certainly not have had our event.
We went to extraordinary measures for check-in and instituted a touchless process with required temperature checks, social distancing in line, and sanitizing upon check-in. We issued wristbands in one colour to indicate who had antibodies and therefore was not contagious. We issued a second colour to those that showed us a very recent negative Covid-19 test. The wristbands even had each person’s date of their test circled.
Over 50 percent of our attendees had the antibodies and many of the rest got tested right before the event. We were feeling better and better about the risk potential as the event was about to kick off. We required masks in all public places and told them they would have to wear them in elevators and even in our parties and while up on the rooftop pool.
I mean it did sound like he tried to make it all as safe as possible, but at the end of the day it’s still a bunch of people fucking and swapping spit and jizz so it probably wasn’t the most wise decision. Hindsight is a luxury I guess hey Bob?
