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Worlds Largest Virus Party?

theprestige said:
My view of collateral damage is that it's justified only when two conditions* are met:

First, the destruction of the target has a clear military value.

Second, that the amount of collateral damage is proportional to the expected military value of destroying the target.

Obviously this is a social situation, not a military one, so feel free to substitute "social value" for military value. Without resorting to bigotry, can you present a theory of social value arising from the thousands of deaths that you believe will solve whatever the problem is?
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Yes, more votes for the party that's more likely to address the issue that's threatening our species right now: global warming.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Another thing worth pointing out is that local sightseeing is a big part of the rally. Often bikers will go on long rides during the day to place like Mt. Rushmore, Deadwood, or other popular tourist spots, and return to Sturgis in the evening for the partying.

Everything within a couple hours drive is probably getting a nice dose of outside biological profile. A mitigating factor is that many of these attractions are outdoors. It's probably possible to go to places like Mt. Rushmore and still socially distance, but I doubt many of these bikers really care to try.
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This seems irrelevant. If they're standing next to each other in Sturgis anyway, what's the additional harm of them riding over to Rushmore and standing next to each other there?
 
theprestige said:
This seems irrelevant. If they're standing next to each other in Sturgis anyway, what's the additional harm of them riding over to Rushmore and standing next to each other there?
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It spreads the impact to other towns outside of Sturgis. Each night they return to home base to cough directly into eachothers mouths, then go off in the morning to spread the good news to the entire western part of the state. A bunch of typhoid Mary's on motorcycles touring the state.

Sucks to be an gas station worker in Rapid City right now, I suspect.
 
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Hehe -- checking out the Sturgis webcams this morning (8:30 am) it doesn't appear that many bikers are awake yet.
 

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ponderingturtle said:
That seems to be applied to things several orders of magnitude smaller than this will be. I mean they call a party that only gets 30 people infected a super spreader event. When this gets 30,000 people infected doesn't it deserve some more impactful name?
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Covidioticide?
 
alfaniner said:
Hehe -- checking out the Sturgis webcams this morning (8:30 am) it doesn't appear that many bikers are awake yet.
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Wow, just wow. I watched those feeds for a couple hours yesterday. From the long views it's hard to tell the difference between a white beard and a mask. From the closer views I think I saw maybe two masks. The two cops at the intersection were maskless.
The videos of the concerts are beyond disturbing.

Also, holy cow! All that traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) using 4-way stops! At least most seem to know what a 4-way is.
Having said all that it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. Reminds me a bit of the '96 Olympics.
 
I know plenty of people who go to sturgis every year. I know that they are maskless and believe that covid is a hoax to embarrass the POSOTUS.
 
They come from all over, and are fersure mask less in their home towns. So there is a higher than normal percentage of Sero+. So the disease rate might be lower than the pandemic porns want.
It might be an interesting group to do a sero study on? Hey CDC!
 
I for one am happy to see such a selfless group of indiviruals volunteering to be guinea pigs for a large (if rather uncontrolled) experiment. The only downside is the inevitable collateral damage: spouses, friends, aged parents, and perhaps even offspring.

As others have mentioned, in a couple of years there could be a lot of used motorcycles for sale. I wonder if next year's rally, if it happens, will be noticeably smaller?
 
Blue Mountain said:
I for one am happy to see such a selfless group of indiviruals volunteering to be guinea pigs for a large (if rather uncontrolled) experiment. The only downside is the inevitable collateral damage: spouses, friends, aged parents, and perhaps even offspring.

As others have mentioned, in a couple of years there could be a lot of used motorcycles for sale. I wonder if next year's rally, if it happens, will be noticeably smaller?
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Maybe. I suspect the week will include a memorial hour gathering with a lot of new faces... seated on familiar rides.

Big grin smilie feels inappropriate here... and yet.

Maybe just a little one. [emoji4]
 
Blue Mountain said:
I for one am happy to see such a selfless group of indiviruals volunteering to be guinea pigs for a large (if rather uncontrolled) experiment. The only downside is the inevitable collateral damage: spouses, friends, aged parents, and perhaps even offspring.

As others have mentioned, in a couple of years there could be a lot of used motorcycles for sale. I wonder if next year's rally, if it happens, will be noticeably smaller?
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I'm not sure if that was a typo but it is damn appropriate.
 
theprestige said:
At least this has the merit of being a testable prediction. And it's a fairly easy one to test: All we have to do is wait. For how long, do you think? Do we wait one year? Two? Five? Ten?
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If the China Virus was anything close to what we were promised, they should all be dead in fourteen days.
 
alfaniner said:
I'm not sure if that was a typo but it is damn appropriate.
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Need to fix up the spelling but I wouldn't mind seeing that one go... uh yeah, can't even finish without spoiling a sincere thought.
I'll try this...
"Anti Maskers... American Indivirualists".

Nah... still the spelling.
 
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