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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Biketoberfest in Daytona last year didn’t seem to be the covid superspreader event that was widely feared.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bike week in Daytona started a coupla weeks ago and ended a week ago, long enough to see an impact by now if there was going to be one. I don’t see it, do you?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Everything is open in Florida, no masks required (because the governor of Florida acknowledges that he doesn’t have the authority to require them (and the Florida legislature never passed a law on that (nor did any legislature in any other state.))) If there was a place for covid to spread Florida would be the place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=800 height=596 style='width:8.3333in;height:6.2083in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D71E8D.45DCCFC0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now we get the reeeeeaaaallll test: Spring Break in Florida, multiple locations, seething, copulating hordes of college students and others who would like to still be college students, having the party of their lives. If I understand anything at all about contagion, this dang sure should be a superspreader.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=803 height=441 style='width:8.3645in;height:4.5937in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D71E8D.45DCCFC0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK, well… Bike week apparently wasn’t. This is going on now. Do let us see what happens, shall we?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>