The Osceola County sheriff’s office has received over 600 noise complaints over the past months regarding so-called ‘COVID-19 Parties’ that usually take place at vacation rental homes with the aim of spreading the virus among attendees, Sherriff Russ Gibson revealed to local TV news channel Click Orlando, an affiliate of CBS. The sheriff asserted that his offices have received complaints about the parties, reportedly attended by “unsavory” residents, since March, and vowed to take action regarding the gatherings which are believed to be contributing to the COVID-19 spike in the county. “They’re being referred to, from what I’m being told, as COVID-19 parties, where they’re actually getting together and they’re trying to mingle to potentially spread the virus amongst each other if they’re asymptomatic or whatever the case might be,” Gibson said on Friday. According to the TV station, the number of attendees at the so-called COVID-19 parties range from 50 to 400 people. The gatherings are said to sporadically end in violence and are dispersed by sheriff’s deputies when discovered. Helicopter footage from a purported COVID-19 party, held in May, features dozens of vehicles blocking the road of a residential community while attendees dance in the middle of an intersection…. Read full this story
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