Fauci tells Sturgis Motorcycle Rally attendees health crisis 'supersedes' need to do 'what you want to'

White House medical advisor and epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci shared his concerns about South Dakota's upcoming Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Sunday's "Meet the Press," subtly rebuking attendees as host Chuck Todd appeared to suggest it could be another coronavirus "super spreader" event. Cases have begun to rapidly rise across the U.S. in the spread of the delta variant, which has also made way for a small variant known as "delta plus" variant that has a spike protein mutation that may cause it to have a spike in transmissions. Vaccinated individuals remain protected from serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 variants, studies have shown. Fauci and Todd wondered whether it was wise for South Dakota motorcyclists to assemble considering the context. "We have Sturgis, South Dakota, there's a gathering right now of some 700,000 people," Todd said. It was a smaller turnout last year, Todd noted, saying it still led to "a massive outbreak in the Dakotas." He asked his guest what he expects the rally to do to that part of the country this year. "I'm very concerned, Chuck, that we're going to see another surge related to that rally," Fauci said. FAUCI: ALLOWING VIRUS TO REPLICATE COULD MAKE ‘WORSE VARIANT’ THAT ‘COULD IMPACT THE VACCINATED’ While Fauci said it was "understandable" that people "want to do the kind of things they want to do," he suggested that rally goers think of the greater good that could come from staying home. "There comes a time when you're dealing with a public health crisis, that could involve you, your family, and everyone else that something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do," Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,

Tweets and video at link. Last year while those "mostly peaceful" protests were going on, which BTW the unions representing health care workers wholeheartedly supported, social distancing be damned gov Wolf of PA tried to prevent the big car show and swap meet in Carlisle from happening. It did go on attracting over 250k people and not ONE COVID case could be attributed to that event. Last years bike rally in Sturgis attracted over 1 million and only 10, count 'em TEN cases attributable. Not the 260K cases the NON PEER REVIEWED San Diego State University's Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies claimed. Remarkable considering many of us hot rodders and our biker friends are old farts with medical conditions. The real mind blower was last summer when Lincoln Cty, OR passed a full time mask mandate that initially exempted Black people. Either this was the most pathetically transparent act of political pandering I've ever heard of. Or an admission that Fauxchi doesn't know Jack 💩 about what he's talking about, just so much feel good symbolism over substance. OR, could it be the county commissioners are surreptitiously a bunch of White supremacists who devised a sinister plot to expose Blacks to the COVID and let the virus kill them off? Taking "killing them with compassion" to a new sickening level?

When they prop up Jen Psaki aka Peppermint Patty in front of that big White House emblem to announce the Bidet Administration will finish the southern border wall and direct the Border Patrol and ICE to seriously crack down on illegal immigration OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, then, MAYBE then I'll believe some of the COVID hype. Until then Fauxchi can tell his jokes to other folks.

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