[Professional]

Might be the biggest lie of the year. Laughable

[wintertime]

What was the hospitalization rate. How many died? ( not answered in the article.)

If the above two answers are low or none, then the bikers did us all a favor. Those infected increased herd immunity and that benefits everyone.

[throwthebumsout]

Ask yourself: Why would a German-based think tank do a COVID study on an American biker rally? This has Soros written all over it.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I am so confused.

How did, in less than a month, 269k cases connect to 1 event, massive though it might be?

[oil_dude]

Debunked by Governor of SD.

[Gator113]

I don’t believe a single word of this or any other MSN tripe.

[DouglasKC]

Fake news going to fake....again....

[blueplum]

250,000/365,979 is no way realistic:

“From August 7 through 14, 2020, a total of 365,979 people attended the event—just 7.5 percent fewer people than the 2019 tally for the same time period, the DOT told Rapid City Journal...

The Highway Patrol report of non-injury crashes was up slightly in 2020, with 50 crashes reported. In 2019, a total of 41 occurred. Crashes involving injuries were also up slightly, with 56 reported for 2020 over 52 in 2019. Fatal crashes doubled for 2020, with 4 crashes and 5 fatalities; in 2019, there were 2 crashes and 2 fatalities in total.

...Fewer attendees for 2020 were in the 60 to 70 age range, which makes sense given which age group has so far been most statistically vulnerable to COVID-19.\

https://www.rideapart.com/articles/439496/sturgis-2020-attendance-crime-numbers/

doesn’t seem to be a sustained spike in SD:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/south-dakota/

[dynoman]

I read the study PDF. That’s a modeled and hypothetical result. It’s subject to bias and GIGO effects. 260 is the real number.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/02/908874086/states-report-coronavirus-cases-linked-to-sturgis-s-d-motorcycle-rally

[1Old Pro]

The event will cost an estimated $12.2 billion in health-care costs, they wrote.

No problem, they have Insurance, perhaps we should throw in a Louie Vuitton bag as well.

[Nifster]

An estimate made by economists. The actual number traced by the health dept is 260

[so_real]

It's not a "study". It's a data model. Just like the ones that predicted 2.2 million coronavirus deaths in the United States. Garbage In ... Garbage Out. None of the residents of Sturgis have died from coronavirus following the rally.

[KosmicKitty]

And how many cases arose from the BLM riots?

Oh, and can you please give me the death rate, because that’s really all that matters.

[antidemoncrat]

And the 50,000 Al Sharpton DC rally didn’t produce one case of Covid-19? Haven’t heard a word about the spread of Covid-19 due to the 100 days of protesting in Portland. Must be this virus is Democrat friendly.

[Right Wing Assault]

That's a lie! It's 2,500,000!

[Drango]

Now do the study for the last 100 nights in Portland.

[fatima]

No studies done on BLM protests.

[pfflier]

Maybe they are confusing covid with the STD count..

[dirtymac]

Bull Sh*t.

Of the 400,000 visitors 500,000 got the China Virus and infected another 2.3 Million people, cats, and dogs. It will cost Trillions of dollars to fix the problem.

We are all going to die because of this motorcycle rally of Trump supporters.

Funny how the Antifa riots never spread the China Virus. Good pure Christian folks out having a nice Sunday riot.

[pacificus]

Are there even 250k people in South Dakota?

Oh, their quintuple counting the population...

Such a load of randomized hor$e$hit!