I can't believe this Sturgis-goes-on-as-usual mentality.

[TheCowsCameHome]

This from the NYT today - looks like a Trump rally on two wheelers.

I hope the link works.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/08/nation/if-we-get-it-we-chose-be-here-despite-virus-thousands-converge-sturgis-sd-huge-rally/

[beachbumbob]

1. whats not to believe?

[Luciferous]

7. Right? There are a LOT of selfish assholes out there!

[customerserviceguy]

12. Really

Many of the most badass bikers won't even wear a helmet in states where it's legal to ride without one, you think they're going to use masks?

[lunasun]

2. I can . When you look at the crowd and consider the culture, but the gas station clerk or the maid

or someone back home that picks it up from these fuckers makes them heartless besides brainless

[sop]

3. "If we get it, we chose to be here."

This Sturgis rally promises to be the perfect storm of covid infection. The entire town should be quarantined, with no one allowed to leave and spread the disease.

[Luciferous]

8. Of course they don't consider the people

that didn't choose to be there that they will infect later on!

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I noted in another thread that Harley-Davidson will not be there this year.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-the-official-motorcycle-brand-of-the-sturgis-rally-thinks-the-mass-gathering-is-too-risky

[Hugin]

9. +1

Geeze.

Again, I lament that willful ignorance is such a slow acting poison.

[mnmoderatedem]

5. not only is it a super spreader event

but they will take it back with them and spread it around, and they congregate there from all over the country.

Nice job, dumb asses.

[still_one]

6. Most of them are trumpets I suspect.

[beachbumbob]

10. I would venture to say 95% are or more

[still_one]

14. Yup

[meow2u3]

11. Sturgis is actually an outlaw biker gathering and always has been

I'm not surprised in the least at the wholesale defiance of norms, laws, and common decency of outlaw biker gangs. They have no respect for the health of others, just like the criminals they are.

[JustGene]

15. Funny

It was mostly a tourist trap in '94, when I went.

[dalton99a]

13. But most attendees are doctors, lawyers and accountants

Most attendees in recent years are professionals with too much to lose if they get arrested. The top three professions at Sturgis are doctors, lawyers and accountants, city officials have said in previous years.

That's translated to big money for the local economy. Last year, the rally brought in about $1.3 million in tax revenue for South Dakota, according to the state Department of Revenue.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/07/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-what-know-masks-attendance-rules/3321223001/