SD - 230%+ increase in cases in the wake of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

[kpete]

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[marble falls]

1. My goodness. Whoda thunk?

[Ocelot II]

2. What a surprise! Who'd have guessed?

[Scrivener7]

3. That's who stayed there. There are a lot more who came, caught it, and then left

to spread the disease to other like-minded people.

[moondust]

7. Last year...

The 2020 Sturgis motorcycle rally resulted in widespread transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 across the United States. At least 649 coronavirus disease 2019 cases were identified, including secondary and tertiary spread to close contacts.
~
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/73/Supplement_1/S106/6257584

The 2021 rally had almost twice as many attending. And with Delta being more transmissible...look out.

[Scrivener7]

30. Estimates vary widely. One study said Sturgis resulted in 200,000 cases.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/08/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-may-have-caused-250000-coronavirus-cases-economists-say/?sh=177d3dac45fa

[wnylib]

27. What were the dates of the rally?

I'm just wondering about what contributions it might havr made to infection spikes in my area.

[Lasher]

29. Aug 7, 2020 - Aug 16, 2020

[wnylib]

32. This year's dates? Guess I should have been more specific.

[Lasher]

34. August 6 thru August 15

[wnylib]

35. Thanks. It does coincide with the increase

in my area. Although I can't say for sure that Sturgis is the reason for it, there are a lot of bike fans here.

[at140]

4. I bet most were not vaxxed..nt

[madaboutharry]

5. Gov. Snow Queen:

"South Dakota's cases remain low. If you're worried about the virus, you're free to get vaccinated, wear a mask, or stay at home. But we won't be mandating anything.”

This pandemic has revealed a whole new level of stupid.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Saw this spot-on TikTok...

Which said essentially;

What did COVID teach me?

When a significant percentage of Americans were asked what the absolute minimum they would do to prevent the death of someone near them, their response was.....

Nothing.

[Delphinus]

14. Oh my ...

Put that bluntly it really made me want to cry.

[wnylib]

28. Not simply stupid, but selfish

indifference to others, a complete lack of sense of community responsibility and leadership.

[llashram]

8. not surprising

and what of all those virus carriers, unmasked mind you, who returned all over the Americas and Canada?

[Tomconroy]

9. The town of Sturgis is getting a substantial spike,

Going from a couple of cases a day a week ago or so to 25 to 35 in the last few days.

[jmowreader]

17. And Sturgis is not very big

They have fewer than 7000 residents.

[Champp]

10. "F*ck around and find out what happens." - The Universe

[IronLionZion]

11. China hates South Dakota for their red state freedoms

no other explanation is plausible.

[Mr. Evil]

12. Idiots gonna idiot.

[iemanja]

13. Wait until the MN State Fair

that will make Sturgis look like peanuts.

[lame54]

26. Or the NYC concert in the park

[wnylib]

31. On top of the NY state fair.

Far removed from NYC, at the opposite side of the state, the Buffalo area (Erie County) recorded 198 new cases on Friday and has moved up from the CDC "substantial" category of infection to "high risk."

I am in a nearby county where people travel daily to Buffalo and back. Within a few weeks after Buffalo went from moderate to substantial, so did we. My area is averaging 20 new cases a day now. In a few weeks, we will also likely move up from substantial to high.

Still very few masks around here. School opens soon.

[lame54]

33. The mass denial is infuriating

[wnylib]

36. Sure is. I live in a senior complex of

multistoried apartment buildings. So, even vaccinated people here are more at risk of breakthrough infections AND symptoms, due to age and preexisting health conditions.

A few days ago, at a convenience store parking lot, I encountered a woman who lives one floor above me. I was wearing a mask. She was not. She told me that she couldn't be bothered with "all that hype" about masks and vaccines, so she is not vaccinated, either. She is one reason why I never leave my apartment without a mask and do not get on the small elevator if anyone else is on it.

Next weekend there is an indoor, end of summer dinner at the complex's rec center in the building next to mine. Of course I will not be there. I could never be persuaded to enter a room of unmasked people where I would have to remove my mask, too (in order to eat), not even if I was offered free rent for the rest of the year.

Crazy deniers.

[Scrivener7]

38. Proof of vaccination was required for that.

And a nice new thing: proof of vaccination is required for indoor eating in restaurants too. I love that.

[brush]

15. Wash, rinse, repeat.

[twodogsbarking]

16. Deadlier and more contagious than last year.

Figures.

[usaf-vet]

18. Cause and effect? Of course you would need to have taken a science class to understand that.

And who is going to pay for that stupidity?

[iluvtennis]

19. Greater public health and safety compromised for "Freedumb".

[calimary]

22. Sheesh, no kidding! Freedumb.

[calimary]

20. Gee, who could have possibly known...

[sheilahi]

21. now for act II

And next........all those thousands of idiots that were at the Trump rally yesterday.

[BlueWavePsych]

23. Superspreader maskholes

[ejbr]

24. But really

What's important is that they owned the libs

[Tommymac]

25. Yikes. We're going to The Black Hills and Badlands the next 2 weeks.

Oh well. At least all the things we plan to visit are outdoors.

And we have minimized hotel transfers, we'll eat outside or in the hotel, and no plans for nightlife until we reach Duluth area on our way home. (Minneapolis to Rapid City to Bismarck to Duluth to Minneapolis)

But we really really need a vacation, I've not had more then 4 days in a row off work in 18 months. And we have to get the hell away from PA. Love it here, but getting stir crazy.

We picked this area because of all the natural outdoorsy things to do and see. Badlands, Grasslands, Devil's Tower, Black Hills. We took Sturgis into account in our planning, figured 2 weeks was enough buffer, we knew it would be peaking but also more and more reluctant but sane folks will get the vaccine because of the peak waking them up to reality.

We toured the covid invested South in 4 days earlier this spring - from Atlanta to Memphis to Chattanoga to Atlanta, and we felt safe then. All of the hotel and restaurant staff was masked, as well as the patrons, and we spent most of the time in the car or outdoor sightseeing.

I'm sure we'll be ok - both vaccinated for under 8 months, and dedicated mask wearers etc. And no patience for the anti's.

[twodogsbarking]

37. So if your friends were riding off a cliff on a motorcycle you would do it too?

Oh yeah.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. For this thread

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