These pictures of a massive pool party in Wuhan will infuriate you

[Andy Meek]

• Photos and video taken at a Wuhan water park just a few days ago show a huge party in the Chinese city that's been called ground zero of the global coronavirus pandemic.
• They depict scenes of partygoers not seeming to follow social distancing and face mask guidelines that now dominate life in much of the rest of the world.
• Wuhan hasn't reported a new coronavirus infection since May.

The central Chinese city that's been referred to as ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic is now partying like its 2019.

Photos and video captured at a Wuhan water park in recent days depict a scene that would be unthinkable pretty much anywhere else in the world right now, with the pool party including a massive crowd of revelers seemingly shoulder-to-shoulder and with no face masks in sight. There's a DJ on hand, too, giving the whole thing the atmosphere of an outdoors EDM festival that wouldn't be out of place in a party city like, say, Las Vegas -- prior to, of course, the COVID-19 virus that researchers at Johns Hopkins University say has sickened almost 22 million people around the world and killed some 775,000.

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