Please, don’t be a covidiot
Friday, May 8, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Mark Maxwell with the scoop…
Circuit Court Judge Ken Deihl gave a groom the signal to kiss the bride in a wedding on Friday. Days later, she tested positive for COVID-19.
Macoupin County Public Health Director Christy Blank said her staff interviewed the woman after the lab results showed she had tested positive. Blank would not confirm the identity of the infected patient, and declined to comment when asked about the wedding ceremony.
In the process of contact tracing, public health staff reviewed video footage at the courthouse that revealed the infected patient had come into close contact with several people while on the premises.
Health officials abruptly closed the courthouse to the public in order to conduct a deep cleaning on Thursday. Anxious staff who were on site for the ceremony are now undergoing testing. In lieu of a honeymoon, the newlyweds were ordered into a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
“Three employees at the Macoupin County Courthouse in Carlinville were exposed to and came in close contact with a person who has since tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19),” the county public health department confirmed in a press release on Thursday afternoon. Those three employees have not tested positive at this time, but are also now under a 14-day quarantine.
Deihl is a Democrat and I’m told is generally respected. But this was a really stupid thing to do…
- efudd - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:24 am:
Darren Bailey and Chris Miller send their thoughts and prayers to all those affected.
- hisgirlfriday - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:28 am:
Is Macoupin County really the only county in Illinois that has allowed court weddings to go forward? I find that hard to believe.
- Circuit Pony - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:39 am:
Wedding with masks, social distancing, two-person limit - reasonable rules
if folks didn’t observe proper social distancing & came into close contact….
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:42 am:
=== Wedding with masks, social distancing, two-person limit - reasonable rules===
.. and yet, infections.
How reasonable… is that?
Covidiots.
This is not “essential”
- Northsider - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:52 am:
The covidiots will literally be the death of us all. New York allows remote weddings. So should Illinois.
- Lester Holt’s Mustache - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 9:56 am:
Maxwell’s story is somewhat vague - was the infected person one of the two guests allowed for the bride and groom? Or just some rando wandered into the courthouse despite being sick?
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:03 am:
===only county in Illinois that has allowed court weddings===
No, it’s the only county in the circuit.
- Gonzo - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:15 am:
===was the infected person one of the two guests allowed for the bride and groom? Or just some rando…=
It was the bride.
- We'll See - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:26 am:
To be fair weddings are to be lasting memories.
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:27 am:
“In lieu of a honeymoon, the newlyweds were ordered into a mandatory 14-day quarantine.”
If it’s a boy, we’ll name him Covid. If it’s a girl, we’re naming her Corona. /s
- Lester Holt’s Mustache - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:35 am:
Was it? The way the story reads, it seems as if it could have been another person who went to the courthouse already sick and while there came into close contact with the couple as well as other courthouse employees
- thoughts matter - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:48 am:
I’d venture to guess the bride and groom have been kissing pretty regularly and that the kiss is not how she got Covid-19. She may have been exposed at the courthouse or somewhere else prior to it after this ceremony. That’s the problem, it’s hard to know who exposed you and where unless there’s a several person outbreak all related to a single place.
Maybe courthouse weddings should be held outside with only participants and social distancing except for said bride and groom.
- thoughts matter - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 10:49 am:
Meant prior to OR after the ceremony.
- Sayitaintso - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 11:03 am:
“You may now arm bump the bride”.
- Dotnonymous - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 11:25 am:
Dying for romance is romantic…death is not.
- Jocko - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 11:51 am:
But, according to the Wisconsin supreme court, Covid doesn’t affect regular folks…only meatpackers. /S
- Last Bull Moose - Friday, May 8, 20 @ 12:10 pm:
Wedding with two guests should be able to go forward. Sounds like social distancing was lax. Learn and do better.