[ExI] bikers again and smallpox

[Dylan Distasio]

Some promising demographic data.  Apparently Sturgis skews young:

(Trigger warning: Scantily clad young biker gals from the latest rally
follow):
https://www.baggersmag.com/girls-sturgis-day-1?image=8#page-5

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:31 PM Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> We need epidemiologists, not economists looking at this.
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>> spike
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> Reason punches holes in this mess of a paper:
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> https://reason.com/2020/09/09/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-didnt-spawn-250000-coronavirus-cases/
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> Additionally, even in places like Minnesota where there was a spike in
> cases in that time frame (that MIGHT have been a result in part from this
> rally), hospitalizations remained extremely low.   The entire paper is
> propaganda, but it was easiest for me to start with the red flags around
> economic cost as they were the easiest to see.
>
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