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Some Good News From Sturgis (Original Post) JimGinPA Aug 2020 OP
Why would anybody wasn't to be LuvNewcastle Aug 2020 #1
Autocorrupt? n/t rzemanfl Aug 2020 #2
I hate this that shit! LuvNewcastle Aug 2020 #4
It's called proofreading. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #5
I do it but I can't always catch the mistakes. LuvNewcastle Aug 2020 #10
I autocorrupt all the time. You are not alone. dmr Aug 2020 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author RestoreAmerica2020 Aug 2020 #14
Ha, ha great quip! Useful too--gracias y buen dia. RestoreAmerica2020 Aug 2020 #16
Can't remember how I did it, but I turned off auto-correct on both phone & iPad as soon as I could Hekate Aug 2020 #36
Live from STURGIS NotHardly Aug 2020 #21
Gee, that looks like fun! StarryNite Aug 2020 #23
That's not so bad. LuvNewcastle Aug 2020 #25
I am seriously surprised that Trump hasn't shown up there and claimed everyone was there to see him. yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2020 #3
Let the corona virus rise like an eagle in the sky kimbutgar Aug 2020 #6
Culling the herd Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #7
Ouch!! LymphocyteLover Aug 2020 #8
Covid 19 likes this. muntrv Aug 2020 #9
Gotta pay those medical bills somehow. lpbk2713 Aug 2020 #11
Sex,drugs, bikes,booze and COVID!!! Bengus81 Aug 2020 #13
OMG what is wrong with these people? AllyCat Aug 2020 #15
Live from STURGIS NotHardly Aug 2020 #20
I think this photos is from a previous year. Not that there aren't similar photos. 33taw Aug 2020 #17
Live Camera from main street STURGIS as we speak NotHardly Aug 2020 #19
2015 Celerity Aug 2020 #28
I would never have gone to that. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #18
Well spoken, however.. 634-5789 Aug 2020 #22
What percentage would you say are Trumpanzees? Kablooie Aug 2020 #24
Judging by the missing teeth, beer bellies, lack of masks and distancing... Tarc Aug 2020 #31
*snort* smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #32
Seal the borders with S.D. roamer65 Aug 2020 #26
fake pic, it is from 2015 Celerity Aug 2020 #27
Great Research! JimGinPA Aug 2020 #29
I heard it was vastly lower attendance, some said 250,000, others under 200K Celerity Aug 2020 #30
I don't like it when fake photos are used by Trump. While this is not a fake photo, it is 33taw Aug 2020 #34
I can't stand motorcycles. I would be fine with them if it wasn't for the noise, but smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #33
I don't disagree about large groups riding thru highly populated areas. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #35
60% of the residents voted against having it this year........... Bengus81 Aug 2020 #37

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
10. I do it but I can't always catch the mistakes.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 05:48 PM
Aug 2020

I'm not perfect. I don't usually have serious errors when I post.

Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #5)

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
36. Can't remember how I did it, but I turned off auto-correct on both phone & iPad as soon as I could
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 12:22 AM
Aug 2020

The damn thing inserted so many errors it drove me nuts. I am an excellent proofer, as it happens. Now all I have to contend with is the funky keyboard.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
25. That's not so bad.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:47 PM
Aug 2020

Bikers are usually nice people who like to have fun. I wouldn’t mind being there
a long as I wasn’t elbow to asshole with everybody else.

kimbutgar

(20,881 posts)
6. Let the corona virus rise like an eagle in the sky
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 05:40 PM
Aug 2020

Either they cull the herd Or they learn a terrible lesson ignoring science.

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
13. Sex,drugs, bikes,booze and COVID!!!
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 05:53 PM
Aug 2020


In most cases of at Sturgis you can't say die young and leave a good looking corpse.


PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
18. I would never have gone to that.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:03 PM
Aug 2020

Well, I'm just not a Sturgis kind of guy anyway. Last 'bike' I ever owned was a minibike when I was 15, but then my parents VERY wisely refused to allow me to get a motorcycle.

But look at this crowd. We're probably looking at at least 6,500 deaths just in this group, let alone the people they all infect. Probably more.

If you do the simple division, about 3.7% of the cases die. And, again according to the recent Indian study, if one COVID-positive person can infect an additional 46 people without social distancing or masks, as these people are, then it would take only 5,400 positive people in this group to infect the whole quarter million.

We could even be conservative and say that if only 75% of people will get the virus anyway, it would be around 185,000 people. Assuming the 3.7% morbidity rate, we can say that, FOR JUST THIS GROUP, around 6,800 will die.

It isn't just them, though, because after Sturgis, they will all go home, to their churches, to their stores, to their workplaces, and they will infect more people. Those people will infect yet more people, and so on.

The gift that keeps on giving, much like drug-resistant tertiary syphilis - but Trump's condition is a different conversation...

Tarc

(10,472 posts)
31. Judging by the missing teeth, beer bellies, lack of masks and distancing...
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:17 PM
Aug 2020

I'm good with calling it 100%.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
26. Seal the borders with S.D.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:23 PM
Aug 2020

All bikers and anyone with a bike on a trailer cannot leave for 14 days.

Good use for the neighboring state National Guards.

Celerity

(42,662 posts)
27. fake pic, it is from 2015
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:45 PM
Aug 2020

RT
@SturgisRally
: 75th #SturgisRally drew an estimated 739,000 people! #biker #motorcycles
7:10 PM · Sep 22, 2015·Hootsuite







JimGinPA

(14,811 posts)
29. Great Research!
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:00 PM
Aug 2020

However, the picture wasn't really the point. Same amount of people there this year as in past years, without masks, so the meme I stole from FB is still ironically funny.




Celerity

(42,662 posts)
30. I heard it was vastly lower attendance, some said 250,000, others under 200K
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:06 PM
Aug 2020

they had three quarters of a million in 2015

I am not a Sturgis expert, so there is that.


btw

all I did was use Google image search

took 5 seconds, so no great skill can I claim, lolol

cheers


33taw

(2,420 posts)
34. I don't like it when fake photos are used by Trump. While this is not a fake photo, it is
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:35 PM
Aug 2020

misleading. There are plenty of photos from this year’s crowd to make the point that 250,000 people are likely to cause an outbreak.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
33. I can't stand motorcycles. I would be fine with them if it wasn't for the noise, but
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:28 PM
Aug 2020

there is nothing I hate more than out for lunch or at a cafe on a sunny, beautiful day enjoying my time with friends or family when a gang of cyclists comes riding through town (often vacation towns or resort areas) blaring their motors and obnoxiously disturbing the peace.

You have to completely put everything on hold until they are done with their pointless little attention whoring parades so you can finally socialize in peace again. What is it with these people? Why do they have to disturb the peace wherever they go? Nobody wants to hear them or see them. When they ride into these towns? It's just like a big "Fuck You" to everyone who lives or vacations there. What is the point of the noise? Do they really think it makes them cool?

Well, they aren't. They are selfish, obnoxious assholes. And I would bet that a majority of them are Trumpers.


GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
35. I don't disagree about large groups riding thru highly populated areas.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:07 PM
Aug 2020

But I know a couple of Harley riders and the pipe noise, according to them is because when they are in your blind spot will still probably hear them.

That said, I will not ever own one. The chances of being killed in an accident are over 40 times(not percentage) Greater than an accident in a vehicle. I road bikes some when I was young and feeling invincible but that’s been over 35 years ago.

Have a nice evening.

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
37. 60% of the residents voted against having it this year...........
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 09:04 AM
Aug 2020

But as usual all City Hall looks at are $$$$ and egged on by business. People coming there from every Covid hot spot in the Nation, what could go wrong?

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