[ExI] sturgis rolls on

[BillK]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 21:50, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> With three weeks lead time, if I know how to extract the signal and I do the math right, I aughta be able to offer some guidance to my own biker friends on the wisdom of hitting Sturgis three weeks after the big event.  The crowds will be waaaaay down, and we are not hard-drinking types.  Drugs are not seen at our events at all.  But we are an older and more fragile crowd than the Harley dudes.
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> Do let us put our heads together on this, shall we?  There should be a way to find out if the Sturgis rally kicked off a big new wave in a coupla weeks, ja?  I know there is plenty of statistical talent here.
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> spike
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Well, bikers are not exactly popular with the media and the media
enjoy broadcasting the Covid panic, so I would expect any  new virus
wave to have headlines in every newspaper and TV news channel.
No research needed.


BillK.