Young people are going to "COVID-19 parties" in Alabama - duh!

This is something you might not have expected, even in America, the Land of the Covidiot.
Young people in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and possibly elsewhere, are attending pandemic parties, where infected people are encouraged to attend, so that others are there in the full knowledge that they may well contract the virus. In fact, to spice things up a bit, the first person to get infected as a direct result of the party "wins", and receives a pool of money.
Yes, this sounds like something out of a JG Ballard novel, but it's really happening somewhere in the backwaters of the USA. This is what the currrent "blank generation" is up to; this is the future of America. Presumably, it's all something to do with risk-taking and macho posturing (I don't know but I'm guessing that most attendees are young guys). And we are expecting these people to do the right thing and wear masks, wash their hands, keep their distance, etc?