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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,066 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:26 PM Aug 2020

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was opposed by 60% of residents. Here's why the city approved it.

Before deciding on whether to hold the 80th annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, the local city council turned to its residents to get their take.

"There was a significant amount of discussion that the council had with residents, businesses and state health officials as well as local health officials," Daniel Ainslie, the city manager, told CNN Sunday.

The city, home to fewer than 7,000, sent a survey to all households asking if they wanted the rally to proceed on its scheduled date. The massive event usually brings in crowds of about 500,000 over 10 days of drag races, contests and concerts. On its 75th anniversary, nearly three quarters of a million people showed.

A little more than 60% of people in the city voted against holding the event this week. But the city council approved it anyway.

The decision, Ainslie says, was all about being able to prepare for the crowds.

"There are people throughout America who have been locked up for months and months," he said. "So we kept hearing from people saying it doesn't matter, they are coming to Sturgis. So with that, ultimately the council decided that it was really vital for the community to be prepared for the additional people that we're going to end up having."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-was-opposed-by-60percent-of-residents-heres-why-the-city-approved-it/ar-BB17Mdua?ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20200810_4_3

So the dollars are worth a few deaths.

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The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was opposed by 60% of residents. Here's why the city approved it. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
It always comes down to: It's all about the money. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #1
I wonder how many of the local healthcare workers voted for it? dem4decades Aug 2020 #2
Looking at a map Spearfish,SD and Rapid City,SD Bengus81 Aug 2020 #4
Difficult decisions at city council denem Aug 2020 #3
Failure of Delphinus Aug 2020 #5
Well, they may be right Tom Rinaldo Aug 2020 #6
Given the percentage of people apt to acquire the infection in a crowd like this, it Vinca Aug 2020 #7

dem4decades

(11,241 posts)
2. I wonder how many of the local healthcare workers voted for it?
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:37 PM
Aug 2020

Then again how many of the positive cases will stay in the area and to what extent of the country will the others go?

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
4. Looking at a map Spearfish,SD and Rapid City,SD
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 04:41 PM
Aug 2020

Are within 20-30 minutes of Sturgis. They'll be spreading this virus all over that area and then taking it home.

Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
6. Well, they may be right
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:17 PM
Aug 2020

What percent of the hundreds of thousands of bikers who have headed there for decades gives a fuck whether the town says they are welcome? Probably a quarter of the residents would stand with the bikers anyway, and how much support do you think that town can count on South Dakota's Republican governor giving them if they tried to keep the bikers out?

Vinca

(50,168 posts)
7. Given the percentage of people apt to acquire the infection in a crowd like this, it
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:22 PM
Aug 2020

could wipe out a town of 7,000. Hope the locals stay far, far away from the super spreaders.

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