Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases One study estimates the public health cost of the super-spreading event is near $12 billion. Inae Oh News and Engagement Editor Bio | Follow Grace Pritchett/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. The inevitable fallout from last month’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, an annual event that packed nearly 500,000 people into a small town in South Dakota, is becoming clear, and the emerging picture is grim. According to a new study, which tracked anonymized cellphone data from the rally, over 250,000 coronavirus cases have now been tied to the 10-day event, one of the largest to be held since the start of the pandemic. It drew motorcycle enthusiasts from around the country, many of whom were seen without face coverings inside crowded bars, restaurants, and other indoor establishments. The explosion in cases, the study from the Germany-based IZA Institute of Labor Economics finds, is expected to reach $12 billion in public health costs. “The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally represents a situation where many of the ‘worst-case scenarios’ for super-spreading occurred simultaneously,” the researchers wrote, “the event was prolonged, included individuals packed closely together, involved a large out-of-town population, and had low compliance with recommended infection countermeasures such as the use of masks.” The conclusion, while staggering, is unlikely to surprise to public health officials who warned that proceeding with the rally could be disastrous, particularly given the region’s relaxed attitude towards social distancing guidelines and some of the attendees’ mockery of the pandemic. “Screw COVID. I went to Sturgis,” read one t-shirt from the rally, where overwhelming support for President Trump was the norm. The study comes on the heels of the first reported death from the event, a Minnesota man in his 60’s who attended the rally who died last week. South Dakota now has one of the country’s highest rates of coronavirus cases. https://www.motherjones.com/coronav...twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
If that were even remotely true, the Fraudulent black lives matter protests would be linked to 100 billion corona cases. Give me a break.
We don't know yet the "real story" on the Covid. In spite of politico objectives and their spew to support their agenda, caution is still warranted. (Example... Trump wants us to believe "all is going to be OK.. effective and safe vaccine just around the corner". Dems want to do a "hard shut down" to harm the economy and queer Trump's re-election chances.) Yeah, we still don't know who is telling the truth. Maybe you get it and its consequences are mild... like a common cold. Maybe you get it and recover fully. Maybe you get it and "appear to recover", but left with lingering issues. Maybe you get it and die (small %) Regardless... avoiding getting it is worthwhile... Perhaps "no big deal" if you're "young and healthy"... but what about others you might infect? (And by the way... FUCK THE CHINESE for doing this to all of us!!... so that they might have a biological weapon! And FUCK OBAMA for supporting their effort in this evil endeavor!!) To "throw caution to the wind" is recklish/foolish for now... until we know more.
Answer this Sherlock. How come, not a single BLM or Antifa thug, numbering in the hundreds each time, has ever been reported to have contracted Corona Virus when they are packed every densely, in small area when rioting, burning businesses, looting, etc.? That is not counting the numerous people handling the food they eat? Yet, everyone is being mailed a ballot by Democrat governors even if they did not request it? Extreme liberal BS never ends.