A person with Covid-19 may have exposed others at a bar during Sturgis motorcycle rally

[suegeo]

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Source: CNN

A person who spent hours at a bar during the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota last week has tested positive for Covid-19, state health officials said Tuesday.

The potential exposure came during the city's 80th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally August 7-16.
Health experts were concerned the mass gathering could be a "super-spreader" event, as many attendees travel from all over the country -- including coronavirus hotspots -- and could bring infections back home when they return.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/us/sturgis-south-dakota-rally-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

[turbinetree]

1. Well couldn't see this coming...............

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Well duh

It only takes one at a crowded bar or other place to start the chain-reaction.

ETA - and there will be no way to "contact trace" that (even if they did cooperate with the tracer staff).
ETA2 - the OP article says there were other positive cases at other events (concert, "gentleman's club", etc) at or near the Sturgis gathering.

[suegeo]

29. The music was so loud I had to lean in

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to hear what you were yelling about during our drunken conversation. Indoors.

Think about the viral blast that people in his/her group received. There seems to be a connection between the severity of the disease and the viral blast one gets.

5 1/2 hours to yell over the loud music, people leaning in face to face, no masks, getting yelled at by an infected person. People are taking in a deadly amount of viral load.

Then they drive the 2000 miles back home, polluting every rest stop and gas station and tourist trap they visit.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. ...with all the doors and windows closed.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. I've been wondering how long it would take.

Bunch of older white men + alcohol + pandemic = WTF were they thinking?

[teztkals]

14. Who da thunk it

When sheer ignorance and stupid bravado meet, darwin gets more customers

[KS Toronado]

15. WTF were they thinking is pretty straight forward.....

I'm going to Sturgis to show the world my tattoos & my Harley Davidson & I'm the meanest trump
supporter in the world who isn't afraid of some puny virus.

[Scarsdale]

45. What virus?

It is all a hoax, until one of THEM gets it. MAGATS that is. They sure are rotten role models for their children and grandchildren, aren't they?

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Use that cell phone tracker software for Sturgis.

I’ll bet the phones came and went to many states. And the virus with them.

[CaptYossarian]

23. If NORAD does it, it'll be like tracking Santa.

[SheltieLover]

5. Shocked!

[PatSeg]

6. Oops!

Well now, no one could possibly have seen that coming!

[pamdb]

7. Gee, ya think?

Who would have ever thought? I'm shocked! shocked!

[Pachamama]

8. "A Person"? Only one person?

Oh....there are so many more....

I say within next week or two we will be hearing about soooo many people around country who were at Sturgis...

Sigh....

[mjvpi]

37. Exactly....

A case?

[Bengus81]

40. Yep...this is the shot across the bow.

Then other beer gut, Trump MAGA lovin idiots will start wondering why they feel like death warmed over.

[Squinch]

9. Dumbasses gotta dumbass.

[IronLionZion]

10. No one could have seen this coming. No one

Or how many of these infected people are spreading it to others on their way back home. Make pandemics great again.

[Trueblue Texan]

11. This is news?

[brush]

12. Come on. Do they actually think there was only one person there...

with covid? We'll here more about infections from Sturgis in the next couple of weeks. Anyone who went was taking a chance. IMO it wasn't worth it as that rally happens every year. I'd skipped this one.

[Ilsa]

13. No! Say it isn't so!

[Roy Rolling]

16. Shocked...

Shocked, blah blah blah, Casablanca.

[TalenaGor]

17. wow! no one saw this coming AT ALL

[Alacritous Crier]

18. Obligatory...

[Javaman]

19. color me surprised...

a large group of dumbasses gather, don't wear masks and don't observe social distancing and someone gets sick?

morons.

[Paladin]

20. Least surprising news of year---so far. (nt)

[Initech]

21. Let me guess - they were checking for temperatures and had hand santiizer everywhere?

[Gothmog]

22. This may be a super spreader event

[CaptYossarian]

24. Okay. people--who had Tuesday?

Now we gotta get a time on it for the payout.

When's the next pool? I need some cash.

[llashram]

25. ya think

[aeromanKC]

26. Let the Super Spreading begin among these MAGAt's

No thoughts and prayers here except for the poor innocent essential workers who will now have to put their lives on the line to help save these MAGAt assholes!!

[jcgoldie]

27. Lol

Pretty sure this likely happened a couple hundred times at Sturgis.

[Happy Hoosier]

28. The likelihood is that...

There was a lot more than one person spreading the 'Rona.

[drray23]

30. may ? there is about a percent of the entire us pop.

with covid already and likely more since we are undertesting. even with 1 percent and 250K Sturgis participants, this still puts the number at around 2500 at a minimum . These people then can infect 20 to 30 on average each ( and likely more given the nature of the event ).

[LisaL]

43. Apparently some people are super spreaders and they can infect many, many others.

One super spreader can infect hundreds.

[Voltaire2]

31. there are known knowns

"there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."
-war criminal Donald Rumsfeld.

He left out: and there are things that are so obvious that only a complete idiot would not understand them.

[kimbutgar]

32. After watching the movie Contagion you can see how this virus can spread like wildfire in a bar

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way to not ignore science during a known pandemic.

[suegeo]

34. Security fence to protect wingnut Gov. Noem

How timely for the wingnut governor, a new security fence will be built around her residence.

https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/security-fence-will-be-built-around-s-d-governors-residence/

Angry villagers be storming the mansion with pitch forks and torches because she allowed the super-spreader event to be held. The rally is what, a week long, thing. In reality, bikers pour into the area for weeks...

It's not just a 5 1/2 hour person sitting in a bar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. COVIDIOTS

[Raine]

36. Bound to happen and

I would bet plenty more to come, duh.

[mjvpi]

38. That went with "A" case of STD.

[HotTeaBag]

39. This year's rally could go down as this pandemic's 1918 Philadelphia Liberty Loan parade.

Wherein thousands were infected by the Spanish Flu during one ill-conceived event.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/philadelphia-threw-wwi-parade-gave-thousands-onlookers-flu-180970372/

[Bengus81]

41. Doctor: who were you around for tracing purposes?? Beer gut Trump lover: oh...about 250,000 others

SHIT!!!!

[LisaL]

42. Like somebody already posted, there might be some good deals on used motorcycles soon.

[steve2470]

44. hate to say it but we'll see hundreds or thousands of new COVID cases from Sturgis

The new cases will be all over the country too. Talk about a super-spreader event.

[applegrove]

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