From a reporter friend on the ground: family of the student who tested positive for #COVID2019 in 1 of St. Louis’ most affluent neighborhoods (after traveling to Italy) are defying quarantine. Father & sister went to a school dance, mom went grocery shopping & got her nails done.
While student’s family were supposed to be in quarantine while daughter was tested for #COVID2019, the mom went to Gourmet to Go, the @SchnuckMarkets in Clayton/Ladue, Lifetime Fitness, & got her nails done.
Translation: #COVID2019 is hitting the rich, white, republican, private school crowd in St. Louis.
I’ll just leave this here since people seem to think I’m making this up. From the local (Pulitzer Prize-winning) paper 👇🏻 
Dad was taken to the St. Louis county ER earlier this evening. Just got off the phone with them. It’s nearly 10pm local time and one of the main county hospitals has 100 people waiting in the ER. All beds are taken and all ambulances are out on dispatch.
**MY dad was taken to the ER.
Cool, so the only reason I gave background was to help explain where I got the info on the St. Louis county hospital. To clarify: my father was taken in for chest pain (he’s got heart issues), unrelated to #COVID2019 as far as we know.
Muting this thread since I have neither the time nor the crayons 🖍 to explain this to folks who think this is bs or that I’m wishing bad things on people
