<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">> On Behalf Of Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat<br>><u></u> <br></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">>>... The number comes from the suspected number of people who caught at the <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">> rally. If you take half million-randomly chosen yanks and compare to <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">> the number traceable to the rally, it appears the rally catch rate was about half the average.<u></u><u></u></p><br><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">>...Apples and oranges, don't you think? Unless Sturgis rally attendees are</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">> like a random sample of US-Americans (what you mean by 'yanks' and not, say, New Englanders)...<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">All USians are yanks. I have heard that is a generally accepted term, so I use it for us.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My parenthetical comment was to make sure that's what _you_ meant by the term. </div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">>...then it's the wrong comparison. Do attendees randomly come from all over the US? </p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">Hard to say. I would think in general riders are more likely to attend if</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">they live closer, but I know there are a lot of clubs that love a good long</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">ride out to Sturgis.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know either and my causal search online didn't find what I really wanted: something like where most Sturgis attendees came from and the routes they mainly took to get there.</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">I might be overlooking something really obvious here. If people do ride far,</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">it represents several days in which they have little or no contact with others.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would presume they have to stop to get food or find lodging or use the restroom and whatnot. But I don't know. And maybe some of them camp, bring all the food and drink they need, and don't mind relieving themselves outside. I don't know the numbers here. My guess would be that during the travel, they'd have little contact. And this would be better than, say, if they carpooled or, worse, all took big touring buses -- where if one person had it, they might quickly spread it to others in the car or on the bus.</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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">It might be that alone that can explain it: they are more likely to arrive at</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">Sturgis without having caught in the previous few days, when they were </p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">on the road. Creating a statistical model for that is very difficult, but it is</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">a compelling argument, possibly more so than my notion that sunshine</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">on bare skin raised vitamin D levels, offering a bit of extra protection</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">(that notion under-accounts for the difference.)</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, we'd have to have a good idea of what the percentages are here.</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">My own club went to Sturgis a little later (by three weeks (they are the</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">older crowd (even compared to the geriatric Sturgis main event crowd</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">(so they prefer to not camp on the ground (so they go after the main</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">event (the few hotels around Sturgis are available then (and I can</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">cheerfully report that no one caught and no one crashed (I really worry</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">about this crowd (several are over 80 now.)))))))</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's good to hear. Of course, the modeling that seems correct here -- given all the uncertainties -- did point to something like a few hundred people getting infected, so maybe it's not just a good outcome but a very likely one.</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">No matter how we try to analyze this, there are unknowns and speculation,</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">but if one goes to about 2 wks after the rally (late August) I see only one</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">state which one can recognize a surge, and that is in South Dakota where</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">the rally was held. Irony: the actual ground zero, the town of Sturgis, didn't</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">have a surge.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree about the unknowns here... But this plays both ways. One can't really be sure what happened, but then it also means one shouldn't use the event as a basis to prove much.</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">On the other hand... several of those Midwest states are having huge surges</p></div></div></blockquote><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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">now, which cannot be reasonably traced to the Sturgis rally: it ended over 2 months ago.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, the WaPo article is saying this all started in late August, so that does fit the 'Sturgis rally play a role' explanation. And I'd expect it to follow from there: rally attendees traveling through or returning to those places spread it to more people and it simply takes time for this to play out. So, they're not saying, in the article, that Sturgis happened and there was absolutely no new cases until October. (Of course, other things happened between Sturgis and now, but that doesn't necessarily rule out Sturgis being a contributor here.)</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">An example is Idaho, which had a decline in the weeks following the rally. The surge starting in mid September would have given enough time for healthy returners from Sturgis to catch back in their own home state after the rally. This too must be offered as a possibility: bike clubs had post-rally parties with their stay-home friends and caught there?</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I should know more about Idaho, but things to look for would be how Idaho is different from surrounding states, especially with regard to COVID restrictions. If my memory serves, they were pretty strict with restrictions compared to other 'red' states.</div><div> </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" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">I am completely at a loss to explain the huge surge a full two months after the end of the rally. I suppose we must look at school openings there as the most likely explanation, but if so, why didn’t the bikers see something similar? I am watching for my own confirmation bias: I fully expected a catastrophic surge after the rally, and urged my own club to not go at all this year. On the other hand, although it didn’t turn out as I expected, that was one prediction I am most pleased to have flubbed. I have never been more pleased to be proven wrong than the non-super-spreader that was Sturgis 2020 (from what I can tell, it wasn’t even a normal-spreader (but I still cannot explain why.))</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, Idaho lifted some restrictions in the beginning of September. There was a push to do so in late August. I wonder if the smoke emergency delayed or affected this too. Having gone through that in my area -- and my reading was it was worse in Spokane and so likely in Idaho as well -- it was being in lockdown for about two weeks. I mean no opening windows, only going outside -- with a real breathing mask for me not those dinky N95s :) -- for groceries, almost no contact with anyone else during this time. That could have a big impact. But this is just me guessing.<br></div><div><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 lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><img width="627" height="450" style="width: 6.5312in; height: 4.6875in;" id="gmail-m_4135019737347917468Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:175425d98686917eb1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4135019737347917468MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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