Posted on 09/08/2020 12:08:45 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Nineteen percent of the 1.4 million new coronavirus cases in the U.S. between Aug. 2 and Sept. 2 can be traced back to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held in South Dakota, according to researchers from San Diego State University's Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies.
That's more than 266,000 coronavirus cases attributed to the 10-day event, which more than 460,000 people attended despite fears it could become a so-called super-spreader event......
Researchers from the Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies also studied the spread of COVID-19 tied to Black Lives Matter protests throughout the U.S. and concluded the protests did not have as harmful an effect on public health as some feared.
"We conclude that predictions of population-level spikes in COVID-19 cases from Black Lives Matter protests were too narrowly conceived because of failure to account for non-participants' behavioral responses to large gatherings," the researchers wrote in a paper originally published in June.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The actual study; http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf
I saw anerror in the first minute of reading. 460k VEHICLES were there, not 460K people.
Also it’s a model, not counting actual numbers.
I don’t believe it for a second.
Tells us everything we need to know about this.
Story is likely:
🐂💨💩
TRUE!
Cases that do not result in death are okay
Well, unless they get blood clots or permanent lung damage. BLM protests have blood on their hands, even without the rioting.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronavirus-and-bloodclots
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247086-the-coronavirus-is-leaving-some-people-with-permanent-lung-damage/
Very interesting, my FRiend.
With apologies for an unrelated aside, have you been able to examine any of the climate models? If so, we'd love to hear your observations and opinions.
It is. Total BS.
It’s a Wishin’and Hopin’ study, to blame it on Conservatives.
Total Bovine Sactology
About 400,000 at the event. They each associate withj 10 to 20 people... do the math.
It would be most extraordinary if they couldn’t find that many cases- using mere contact as a standard.
Which no one reputable would do.
Names, please!
So...folks that like motorcycles don’t listen to mask orders and show up therefore with covid and return home same way. Shocker.
Yes, a bad pseudo-scientific “study” that makes assumptions that provide the expected answers. They even attribute cases that started before the rally happened.
In fact, we actually do contact tracing in the real world. We know that 60 or so people tested positive after attending, and they had contacts that led to a total of around 260 cases.
According to THIS “study” we missed thousands of cases at Sturgis, and then 10s of thousands of cases caused by them.
It is BS of course.
They used the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” algorithm.
To be really effective at disabling tracking, use a Faraday bag.
Actual number of cases from Sturgis, 260!
glad you posted the NPR link.
why Fox would even be promoting this rubbish is beyond me.
“...according to researchers from San Diego State University’s Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies.”
I doubt it. I bet they did whatever they could to make sure the numbers supported the conclusion they had already reached.
Dr, Steve McIntyre & Dr. Ross McKittrick and the Hockey Stick? Put any data set through the Mann, Bradley & Hughes paleo-climate model and it delivered a temperature spike.
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