Bikers descend on Sturgis rally with few signs of pandemic

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  1. Eleuthera

    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    That is the official line, I know. That is the dogma I am supposed to accept, on the word of known liars in the "health community" and "the experts" who have us in this mess.

    That is the official line of those selling vaccines, I know. They have a vested interest, you know, in how the public perceives things. Keep telling a lie often enough, and sooner or later some people will believe the lie.
     
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    Ok I skimmed the preprint of the US case. Pretty much confirms two different strains in one individual 48 days apart. Second infection more severe symptoms. Enough mutation to make mutation in the individual unlikely but not ruled out yet by comparison to other strains. Good analysis by the authors of not panicking on a single case. I can’t wait to see if it mutated in this individual. That would be a bit troubling or just a statistical anomaly depending on if it happens again.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3681489
    You know the right people. Make it happen! Lol.
     
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    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    These are no lies.
     
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    Herd immunity is a fantasy. We’re about 2 million dead away from that
     
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    What a joke to think those areas didn't start until Day 1!

    I know a number of people who have gone to the events there and around there!

    For the main events, if people hadn't ARRIVED 10 days to 2 weeks prior it started, good areas and spots were utterly full, or had a sizeable crowd of holding the areas weeks ahead. With the parties and wild sex and good gatherings 24 hours.

    This concept is utterly devoid of reason.

    "Day 1" was the "start"! Lol
     
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    Sure some show up early. But the majority don’t. And you aren’t accounting for incubation periods of infected persons and lags in reporting of cases.

    North Dakota had a big spike up in early August. Was that caused by bikers, too?

    If infected bikers existed all over SD two weeks before the Sturgis rally, when the rally was half over there should have been bikers dying of Covid 19. Can you provide evidence that happened?
     
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    Huh? Why are you posting positive proof that you have no idea what's been going on since at least March? Weird someone would admit that. I just want to know why.
     
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    Sturgis ordered 1,300 tests to cover 20% of their local population beginning 11-15 days after the peak of the rally: City Employees (mandatory), School District Employees (voluntary), Employees of Private Businesses throughout the community (voluntary), and Residents of Sturgis (voluntary). 650 tests were run. All positives were asymptomatic. 4% tested positive, falling within the 3%-7% average for the entire state.

    https://www.newscenter1.tv/city-of-...ity-covid-19-testing-results-following-rally/
     
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    Why don’t you tell us what the positive proof is I have no idea what’s been going on and I’ll address it. :)
     
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    Now that is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
     
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    Does that mean that 10% of the population was tested or 20%?
     
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    Only 650 were tested out of the 1,300 tests they made available, so that's about a 10% sample of the population.
     
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    Of course not, the government never lies. :no:
     
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    But QAnon and the supporters of Q lie all the time...just like the Orange Menace
     
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    The government does lie but these are not part of those lies. These are no lies. The government doesn't lie 100% of the time (although sometimes they get close to it, haha).
     
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    This was a obviously carefully chosen small sample of the local, working, reasonably, reliable, many of whom are REQUIRED to use health precautions, and few are addicts, sick, or seriously promiscuous to people the local had just met (most are working their asses off for their working event of year!).

    So the 250,000 up to 500,000 people who were partying, drinking, drugging up unending amounts injectable speed, coke, smack, and much else, NONE were sampled, tracked, or even mentioned in the city or county, or on the way home.

    This kind of whitewash for a city, county, and the state is the usual political cover to make sure their gets no bad press now, and for the coming year.
     
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    And so it starts. First reported death by COVID-19 of a Sturgis Rally participant:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-covid-19-death-linked-204953641.html

    And it's just the start. From the same link:

    "The 50-case outbreak only includes people who attended the event, Ehresmann said, noting that those infected individuals may have spread the virus to others.

    Infections linked to the event have been reported among people in states from coast to coast."
     
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    OMG! Do you mean to say the virus is present here in these United States?!?!?

    What shall we do? Fauci Fear Factor alert!
     
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    Wonder how many died from BLM protests, why aren't they tracking that one?
     
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    I wonder too. I've spoken numerous times against those, too. Both behaviors were imprudent.
     
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    Is this post written in an attempt to prove that mass gatherings are not a risk of increase infection transmission?
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    Transmission of the virus brings herd immunity. We're almost there, like Sweden.

    That's not good news for the manufacturers of toxic vaccines, but we're almost there.
     
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    We are nowhere near it and neither is Sweden.

    Stop spreading false and dangerous “information “
     
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    We are? Says who?
    So, you're definitely an anti-vaxxer, then. I suspected as much but didn't have full confirmation, now I do. OK, welcome to my Ignore list. I have no interest whatsoever in discussing with anti-vaxxers.
     
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