I live in a co-living mansion in Venice with many roommates, one of whom just tested positive for covid today. The main tenant (who runs the house) is planning to host a massive (80+ person) indoor/outdoor for-profit party this Saturday in the house (which will be attended by multiple roommates who were potentially exposed). I don’t feel this is safe given how likely it is that multiple inhabitants may have covid (so far only one confirmed). What can I do to stop this event from happening? I am not sure if simply explaining my concerns to the master tenant will change anything.
Put up a sign by the walk to the door.
“COVID positive household. Enter at your own risk.”
I think Fear_Itself has the right approach. It seems fair for guests to know. Do you have access to the means by which people have been invited? Put up a post/send them an email etc as appropriate.
If the guy who runs the house decides he wants to throw the event (which I have now warned him not to do in writing) then I can’t imagine he would be ok with such a sign staying up. If he compromised by allowing that, and the sign was impossible to miss, I guess that makes it better, but still feels like a public health risk not worth taking (leaving it up to ppl to make their own risky health choices seems unnecessary here).
You could call your local health department. You could also call the fire department – unless you have a very big house, that many people would probably exceed fire code capacity. Fire departments are not amused by that sort of thing, and they have no problems taking decisive action.
If you can’t stop the party, can you just lock yourself in your room until it’s over and hope for the best?
With it being a for-profit part, he’s got a huge issue with liability. That’s one of the big reasons that businesses are requiring vaccinations and testing and such. If someone gets sick. they could possibly sue. This is especially so if the risk is not disclosed, which in and of itself would probably make a lot of people think twice about attending. They’d probably need to sign waivers, like people had to to attend Trump rallies.
I don’t have a lot of experience in the interpersonal realm with this sort of thing, but if you can let the tenant know the big risk they are taking, that might have a greater impact than, say, trying to appeal to a sense of morality.
I’d tell you to get out of dodge, but you probably should be isolating right now to avoid infection yourself.
Try this with a Covid special circumstance.
If the LAFD had to answer every large party complaint during a normal weekend there would be no one left to put out fires.
Why would the Los Angeles police department have any relevance to a party in Italy?
Venice Beach?
Thats what I thought.
“Venice”, without any other modifiers or context, means the one in Italy. There might be a place called Venice in the LA area; there might be places named Venice in lots of places. If you mean any of those, you need to specify.
I meant Venice in Los Angeles.
I understood it as such, too.
I really thought he meant Venice, Italy, especially with the reference to a co-living mansion, which is something I’ve never heard of and thought it was some Italian thing.
Well, knock my socks off. I assumed Italy as well.
It’s not your job to police your roommates, especially if it’s the guy you are renting from and it could cause you issues. However, the rest of us would appreciate if you could find some way to warn off the potential attendees or tip off the appropriate authorities.
I know that in 2020, the LAPD was making a special effort to shut down for-profit house parties in local mansions. Given the current degree of lockdown, they may actually take an interest in this, especially since the main problem they have with this enforcement is finding out about it in time. Don’t make a 911 call, but calling the local station might actually produce a result.
Venice Beach is a world famous location and millions of tourists from around the world have visited. Has been for decades.
This was my though as well. Besides Covid, I would not want to go there after dark without a vehicle close by. It has become a lot more dangerous because of the homeless encampments that have gone up during the pandemic.