South Dakota Governor Dismisses Sturgis Motorcycle Rally COVID-19 Outbreak As 'Fiction'

Newsweak ^ | Sept 9, 2020

[where's_the_Outrage?]

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has dismissed a report suggesting the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a "superspreading event" for COVID-19 that cost billions of dollars in health costs.

Researchers from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies at San Diego State University in California claimed event, which attracted nearly 500,000 visitors, may have resulted in 266,796 new coronavirus cases—nearly 20 percent of the 1.4 million new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the U.S. between August 2 and September 2.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Rather that using the corona infection/death rate from Sturgis attendees political advocates (AKA researchers) used phone data contact tracking. Meaning if a Sturgis attendee at some point was near someone that got infected with corona, the infection was caused by Sturgis.

[eyeamok]

may have resulted in 266,796 new coronavirus cases

Elephants "MAY" be able to Fly if they flap their ears fast enough.

[cyclotic]

Three weeks ago I returned from spending an entire week in close contact with about 150 people from nine states.

It was a youth summer camp and I was the director.

Zero cases.

[Magnum44]

I’d say no way, but then they say bumble bees are not supposed to be able to fly either...

[McGruff]

There's alot of fiction writers posing as journalist these days.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Good for her. I think we may be looking at the heir apparent to Trump here, guys.

[fireman15]

This is a another good very example of the type of “statistical” nonsense that we have been subjected to during this “pandemic”. How long will people keep believing the lies of those who are trying to use a virus for political gain?

[TakebackGOP]

This is corrupt. Bill de Blasio wouldn’t allow people with covid to be asked if they attended protests.

[KC_Lion]

Yeah, I seen all that too

I seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band

I seen a needle that winked its eye

But I be done seen 'bout everything

When I see a elephant fly

I seen a front porch swing, heard a diamond ring

I seen a polka-dot railroad tie

But I be done seen about everything

When I see a elephant fly

[maggief]

“Researchers from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies at San Diego State University in California”

http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf

The Contagion Externality of a
Superspreading Event:
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

...

Corresponding author:
Joseph J. Sabia
Department of Economics
San Diego State University

(snip)

* Dr. Sabia acknowledges support from the Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies at San Diego State
University, including grant funding from the Troesh Family Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. ...

[bigbob]

Fiction is “just making stuff up”, right?

Yup.

[Swordmaker]

Of course it’s fiction. They had their paper ready for publication only two weeks after the end of Sturgis. Where was the time for testing and analysis? Nowhere. It was in the process of being written and being submitted as soon as Sturgis was being held. To claim that Sturgis is responsible for one-third of all new cases in the US just two to three weeks after the end of the event while all those demonstrations and rioting seem to have zero effect is patently absurd with blind eyes responsible for writing this non-science FANTASY.

The fact is that the number of new cases on the day that Sturgis shut down was ~64,000 (which keep in mind is that “new cases” are those people who test positive for having antibodies in their blood when they TAKE the test, but are not necessarily sick) and the number of the daily new cases was ~42,000 at the end of the two-week gestation period after the end of Sturgis, i.e., new cases are declining on a daily basis, thus putting the lie to the claim of a “super-spreader event” at Sturgis. An actual study found there were only 67 real cases arising out of the Sturgis festival.

[Red Badger]

Motorcycle ping!............

[Red Badger]

That’s about as “scientific” as an online poll. .................

[livius]

Insane.

I live in Florida, which, depending on your county, is much less free than people think, and I’ve gone to Georgia several times (which was freer and is now getting locked down by the counties and cities). I didn’t realize that made me a super spreader, but I started getting bizarre scoldings from Dem friends (there’s only liberals where I live in N. Florida) about my “Irresponsibility” and how I was going to infect all of Florida with this virus from those “irresponsible “ Georgians, or maybe infect them with my (non-existent) virus. I wasn’t sure.

But the crazy sure was strong. Except for some truly terrified people (I know some, but of course they haven’t been out of their houses in 5months so I haven’t seen them), this is all politically motivated. But even they know this is just a crock...which is why their leaders don’t even abide by these restrictions.

[mylife]

I agree!

[lightman]

BEST female State Governor since Sarah Palin!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Fiction is taking a couple of paragraphs of made-up crap and slapping “Experts say” on the top line.

[Quanah]

Let me see if I understand this.

Bob goes to Sturgis. Bob calls home to tell his wife he made it safely.

While Bob is there, a boatload of infected, illegal aliens washes up in Bob’s home town.

Bob returns home.

Two weeks later the sick aliens end up in the emergency room, causing a huge spike in Covid cases in Bob’s home town.

Bob’s cell phone data shows he was at Sturgis, so the huge spike in his home town is due to his attendance there.

Is that about it?

Following the science! LOL.

[Phil]

How many of the permanent residents tested positive and also were hospitalized.