Naturally, it’s a classic “ugly American” overseas behaving like an ass:
Authorities in southern Germany have recorded three more COVID-19 infections in people who frequented bars visited by a 26-year-old American woman suspected of flouting quarantine rules in the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The latest cases take the total number of recent infections in the town to 59, including 25 staff at a hotel resort where the woman worked that caters to U.S. military personnel.
Anton Speer, who heads the county administration, told reporters Tuesday that authorities are still waiting for the results of about 300 tests conducted Monday and it was too soon to give the “all-clear.” The three new infections emerged from 740 tests conducted over the weekend.
Bavaria’s governor, Markus Soeder, called the outbreak in Garmisch-Partenkirchen “a model case of stupidity” because the 26-year-old American had gone partying despite having COVID-19 symptoms and awaiting a test result.
They have contact tracing so they know how much this is happening and can tell who the “patient zeros” are in these cases.
Here people are refusing to cooperate with contact tracing and neither do we really care about spreading it apparently since half of Americans think giving a deadly disease to their families, neighbors, and strangers is their God-given right. Considering how much bar-hopping and COVID spread we have, it’s pretty clear that this is happening all over the US.