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Worlds Largest Virus Party?

casebro said:
Read for literal comprehension instead of putting words in my mouth.

I merely pointed out that the gross statistics do not show 250,000 cases in excess of the curve. In fact the curve keeps sloping downward into September.
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I was asking questions, no need for knee jerk reactions. By the way, you did not answer a single one.

You did not "merely point out" something, you implied that a well attended event that lasted for 10 days was not crucial for a massive rise of cases.
 
About 260 cases directly tied to Sturgis had been detected as of September 2, according to the Washington Post. And I'm going to have to hear some answers on why Sturgis (400K attendees) was more of a spreader than BLM marches that drew a reported 40x that number.
Ben Shapiro (Twitter, Sep. 8, 2020)
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Rebecca Watson (Sep. 10, 2020):
Ben Shapiro Tries to Figure Out How Many People Got COVID-19 from Sturgis

The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19 (IZA, Sep. 2020)
 
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RedStapler said:
I was asking questions, no need for knee jerk reactions. By the way, you did not answer a single one.

You did not "merely point out" something, you implied that a well attended event that lasted for 10 days was not crucial for a massive rise of cases.
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And I pointed out that there was no massive rise in new cases.
 
In Germany, even outlaw bikers appear to be more inclined to wear face masks than bikers at the Sturgis rally:

Germany: Hells Angels rally in Berlin against logo ban (Sep. 13, 20209)
 
Vendors at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota are selling merchandise bearing Nazi imagery

As hundreds of thousands of bikers ride into Sturgis, South Dakota, for its annual motorcycle rally — the largest in the world — vendors selling merchandise featuring racist imagery have come into the spotlight.

According to the South Dakota ABC affiliate KOTA, some vendors at this year's rally, which runs August 6-15, are selling merchandise bearing Nazi imagery and Confederate flags.

One hat bore the stylized initials "SS" of the Schutzstaffel, a Nazi military unit. Under the hat's lid, the text said "support your local white boy." Another was branded with a swastika.
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I am shocked to see that this is going on! It deserves The Captain Louis Renault Award!



But it's OK, because this vendor says so:

KOTA interviewed one vendor, Jenny Alonso, who defended selling merchandise with offensive imagery.

"A lot of bikers, you know, it's a freedom thing," Alonso told KOTA. "A lot of bikers want to be free and voice their opinion and I like to cater to what they want. It doesn't mean that I necessarily believe in everything but, you know, I like to please everybody."

Alonso described Nazi merchandise as a way to honor US soldiers who brought Nazi memorabilia back as trophies after World War II.

"So, we're kind of honoring that not necessarily that, you know, we believe in Nazis and Hitler, but it's just kind of a special thing that the US military was able to go and win the war and bring things back as souvenirs and they would put them on their bike," Alonso said.
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Try setting up your shop outside Auschwitz or in Jerusalem and see if they agree with you.
 
Hitler went all in for everybody "to be free and voice their opinion."
 
shemp said:
Vendors at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota are selling merchandise bearing Nazi imagery



I am shocked to see that this is going on! It deserves The Captain Louis Renault Award!



But it's OK, because this vendor says so:



Try setting up your shop outside Auschwitz or in Jerusalem and see if they agree with you.
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Replying to some thread here a week or so ago, I said you can't offer me omnipotence... I've thought about it. Often enough to know better.
Actual beyond superhero, or even merely Dr. Manhattan/Captain Mar-Vel ET level powers.
Just don't.

It'd be a bloodbath... and these folk are a significant minority of who I think about. [emoji3525]
 
Jim_MDP said:
Replying to some thread here a week or so ago, I said you can't offer me omnipotence... I've thought about it. Often enough to know better.
Actual beyond superhero, or even merely Dr. Manhattan/Captain Mar-Vel ET level powers.
Just don't.

It'd be a bloodbath... and these folk are a significant minority of who I think about. [emoji3525]
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Homelander, is it you?
 
This time around, approx. 43% of Meade County, where Sturgis is located, has been vaccinated, according to a story I saw some damn place.

What percentage of the rally crowds will have been vaccinated? Any guesses?

What percentage will be spreading new strains? Any way of knowing?
 
sackett said:
This time around, approx. 43% of Meade County, where Sturgis is located, has been vaccinated, according to a story I saw some damn place.

What percentage of the rally crowds will have been vaccinated? Any guesses?

What percentage will be spreading new strains? Any way of knowing?
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We'll know after... when it doesn't affect commerce.
Same as last year.
 
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