MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials are warning against people holding or attending “COVID parties” as a way to share exposure to the coronavirus.

“This is a really, really bad idea,” state infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said Wednesday.

Ehresmann said people exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 face a small but real risk of significant illness and complications as well as the risk of passing along the virus to family members.

“So if you’re thinking, ‘Oh, let’s just do this and get it over with,’ it’s really playing Russian roulette,” Ehresmann said.