<div dir="ltr">Some promising demographic data.  Apparently Sturgis skews young:<div><br></div><div>(Trigger warning: Scantily clad young biker gals from the latest rally follow):<br><a href="https://www.baggersmag.com/girls-sturgis-day-1?image=8#page-5">https://www.baggersmag.com/girls-sturgis-day-1?image=8#page-5</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:31 PM Dylan Distasio <<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com">interzone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">We need epidemiologists, not economists looking at this.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">spike</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Reason punches holes in this mess of a paper:<div><a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/09/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-didnt-spawn-250000-coronavirus-cases/" target="_blank">https://reason.com/2020/09/09/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-didnt-spawn-250000-coronavirus-cases/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div>
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