After years of masking up and locking down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, some are now trying to do exactly the... opposite.
Enter: COVID parties.
They're the worrying new trend you've probably been seeing on your social media feeds, as people try to intentionally catch COVID-19 at a time convenient for them.
But while not wanting to get the virus ahead of an important event is understandable, trying to deliberately get COVID 'over and done with' for the sake of immunity is not as foolproof as some might think.
"It is ridiculous," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a press conference last week.
"Reinfection can occur with Omicron. So, if you think you can go out there and get the virus and get it over with, that is not how it works. That is not how the virus is writing the rules."
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In NSW, Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said she was "really horrified" to learn people may be intentionally trying to get COVID-19.
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