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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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Henry Rivera via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bikers again<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-09-08-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-linked-to-20-of-us-covid-19-cases-in-august/?mid=471342&rid=72174378&sc=email&pname=newsletter&cid=NATIONAL&keyid=National%20iHeart%20Daily%20NewsTalk&campid=headline2_readmore">https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-09-08-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-linked-to-20-of-us-covid-19-cases-in-august/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Spike makes a good point. This one has a comment at the end by an epidemiologist. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#717277;background:#F6F8F9'>At this point, the results do not align with the impacts of the rally among attendees in the state of South Dakota," </span><a href="https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/report-calls-sturgis-rally-a-superspreading-event-responsible-for-more-than-12-billion-in-healthcare-costs-nationwide/" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none'>epidemiologist Dr. </span></b></a><a href="https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/report-calls-sturgis-rally-a-superspreading-event-responsible-for-more-than-12-billion-in-healthcare-costs-nationwide/" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none'>Joshua Clayton</span></b></a><a href="https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/report-calls-sturgis-rally-a-superspreading-event-responsible-for-more-than-12-billion-in-healthcare-costs-nationwide/" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none'> told </span></b></a><a href="https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/report-calls-sturgis-rally-a-superspreading-event-responsible-for-more-than-12-billion-in-healthcare-costs-nationwide/" target="_blank"><em><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none'>KELO</span></b></em></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#717277;background:#F6F8F9'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It might end up dependent on how you look at it. If the background expected case rate for half a million randomly chosen people was about 540 cases, but we can trace about 260 to that event, then der economists in der Deutschland extrapolates that to 260,000 cases traceable to Sturgis, it stands to reason that the same method would extrapolate to 540,000 new cases traceable to not-Sturgis during the same period.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Otherwise we would be left trying to figure out what is special about a virus which has been on a motorcycle ride vs one which stayed home.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps it is still better to listen to der epidemiologists, rather than economists und der politicians.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>