"How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest"

"Within weeks of the gathering, the Dakotas, along with Wyoming, Minnesota and Montana, were leading the nation in new coronavirus infections per capita. The surge was especially pronounced in North and South Dakota, where cases and hospitalization rates continued their juggernaut rise into October"

"South Dakota, which had the most attendees, saw coronavirus cases surge within weeks of the rally’s Aug. 16 close, with the seven-day rolling average going from 84 on Aug. 6 to 214 on Aug. 27. The numbers remained elevated into October: The first day of the month, the seven-day rolling average was 434. The state is second in the nation in cases per capita behind North Dakota, with numbers high enough for the Harvard Global Health Institute to recommend stay-at-home orders."

"In many ways, Sturgis is an object lesson in the patchwork U.S. response to a virus that has proved remarkably adept at exploiting such gaps to become resurgent. While some states and localities banned even relatively small groups of people, others, like South Dakota, imposed no restrictions creating huge vulnerabilities as tens of thousands of attendees traveled back home to every state in the nation."

"Among T-shirts hawked by vendors were ones that made mention of the virus keeping many Americans at home: “Screw covid-19, I went to Sturgis.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ho...kP?ocid=msnews


Trump don't give a rat's ass about the people who attend his rallies, all about him, thinks it is 2016 and crowd size matter, regardless of the the safety of those attending. Too bad that some of these people who worship him won't see the real costs of their adoration till weeks after the election, then again, given the people attending those rallies, it will be "Obama's fault"