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Sturgis rally: public health costs in the billions? (Original Post)
tblue37
Sep 2020
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BigmanPigman
(54,798 posts)1. They knew it would happen and said, "Fuck off,
we want our freedumbs". Too bad they didn't only infect each other and keep it within their group.
Thunderbeast
(3,799 posts)2. Time for natural consequences
And those "rugged individualists" will add $12 BILLION in health care costs borne by the rest of us! If you went to Stugis and are now on the way to a hospital with Covid-19, you have a moral obligation to ride your precious Harley off a high cliff somewhere to show you REALLY believe in "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY"!
Maybe you won't kill hundreds of hospital workers along the way!
crickets
(26,168 posts)3. "19 percent of the national cases during this specific timeframe" Yikes. nt
