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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bikers again<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>There were way too many bikers to fit into the bars there, so most of the time they spent outside. Ditto for filling motels. Maybe they used tents? So I agree that being outside may be part of it</span>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Most of what happens at Sturgis happens outdoors. There are not nearly enough accommodations for indoor sleeping. There are no new ones being built: they would need to charge 5000 bucks a night to carry the place until the bikers return next year. It is camping on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>As for a test, let's take another group that is spending their time outside: football players</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>That gets us only part of the way there. The football players go home at the end of the day, rather than sleep on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>I do not know what they are doing inside - wearing masks probably, unlike the average students who are getting the virus big time</span>…<span style='color:black'> bill w<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>From the Sturgis photos I saw, I don’t recall anyone wearing a mask. I have long suspected those don’t really do all that much when everyone is outdoors. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>The pre-selection of healthy people is the best alternative argument I can think of: those who were not feeling well called it off, didn’t go. Granny isn’t feeling well, she says: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Brutus, you go on without me honey and enjoy the ride </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>if I hear you were cheating</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> greet the guys from your Army division </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>with those college harlots</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> have a great time </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I will bash your damn brains in while you are asleep</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> and do pass along my greetings </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>you will never know what hit you</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> to their wives from me </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I was what hit you</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> enjoy the good company and ride safe sweetheart!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>It would be one of those cheerful sendoffs with a warning message big tough biker dudes know to not ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>