Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sturgis attracts hundreds of thousands as Americans awaken from COVID despite Delta variant
Fox News ^ | August 7,2021 | By Emma Colton

Posted on 08/07/2021 7:58:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota as more Americans attend large gatherings this year following last year's coronavirus lockdowns.

The rally kicked off Friday and will last over 10 days with 700,000 people expected to attend. The event was widely criticized as a "superspreading event" last year amid the pandemic, when about 460,000 people attended.

Some state officials have urged caution on the gathering, in light of the delta variant of the virus, but have said the rally can be done "safely" with "proper precautions."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

1 posted on 08/07/2021 7:58:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

The CDC has ruined the medical establishment..looks like half the doctors no nothing…and the other half are afraid to talk..


2 posted on 08/07/2021 8:01:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Great news!

This event always makes me want to go back in time and become a biker chick!

Looks like a lot of fun!

Didn’t they meet with a president one time?


3 posted on 08/07/2021 8:03:16 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

“The event was widely criticized as a “superspreading event” last year amid the pandemic...”

Somehow, this next sentence was not added to the story —

‘Which turned out to be wrong, and the event produced almost no cases.’


4 posted on 08/07/2021 8:09:30 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: proud American in Canada
"...become a biker chick!"

Not suggesting anything about you, personally, but nowadays...

I'd throw some beads simply to get chicks to "...show me your face!"

5 posted on 08/07/2021 8:09:40 AM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Big media can’t wait to talk about how bad and dangerous this is


6 posted on 08/07/2021 8:11:03 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Super speader? Nah. Hot August night’s in Reno all week wrapping up tonight. Maybe the smoke from the Dixie fire drifting in will keep the delta variant down. City is packed with classic cars despite the $4.00+ gas prices. Also packed with smoke this morning. AQI is 270. Cough cough. 😱😷


7 posted on 08/07/2021 8:16:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: proud American in Canada

The fact that the politico-media-healthbureaucracy cabal was totally wrong in their predictions that last year’s rally would be a massive “superspreader” event is totally ignored.

Doesn’t fit the narrative.


8 posted on 08/07/2021 8:16:45 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

We just had to put down our 17 year old dachshund who was a Sturgis biker dog. He was born there, rescued once by a relative who was a fry cook biker chick and when she died we got him, at the age of five, intact. Great dog. I also have a great story about Sturgis. An acquaintance who was a born and raised Jewish NY liberal, decided to get in her VW and ride across country. She accidentally found herself in a campground in and during Sturgis. As she lay in her tent she heard a man coming down the row of tents asking, “are you Jewish?” She was sure she was going to be hauled off and killed. Finally the man got to her tent and she decided she had to tell them that, “yes, I’m Jewish.” He said, “Good, we need a tenth for a minion.” She learned a lot that weekend.


9 posted on 08/07/2021 8:17:15 AM PDT by Mercat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

If the vaccine worked, why are vaccinated people so fearful? They don’t trust the fake vaccine either.But sure open the borders Democrats.


10 posted on 08/07/2021 8:17:27 AM PDT by cnsmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: proud American in Canada

Meeting the President(s) was Rolling Thunder in DC not Sturgis. Sturgis is a one hell of a party and Rolling Thunder was a POW/MIA Protest Ride.


11 posted on 08/07/2021 8:18:58 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Obozo’s big birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard is fine, though.


12 posted on 08/07/2021 8:20:37 AM PDT by Cecily
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

If half a million bikers decide to converge on one place - they’re going to. Stay out of the way, sell them as much stuff as you can and they’re generally pretty easy to get along with.


13 posted on 08/07/2021 8:21:14 AM PDT by circlecity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Not_Who_U_Think

“The event was widely criticized as a “superspreading event” last year amid the pandemic...”
........
Somehow, this next sentence was not added to the story —

‘Which turned out to be wrong, and the event produced almost no cases.’
**************
The cases comprising this static should have been audited for seriousness — because the media have been trying to get Americans to believe that every “case” is a person with a breathing tube.


14 posted on 08/07/2021 8:25:53 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk
Note the current discrepancy in coverage and 'clicking-of-tongue' between this long standing and individually-decided attending festival and the 700(?) invites for the Obama birthday bash in oh-so-posh Martha's Vineyard. Last year you may recall the gross, in tone & fact, exaggerations of the COVID 'actual' super-spreader effect from the 2020 Sturgis Rally.

A single 'study', by the the IZA Institute of Labor Economics out of Germany, without peer review, made lots of the 'news' programs & media with claims of 266,796 COVID-19 coronavirus cases and public health costs of $12.2 billion. Utter indignation was aimed at the organization and governments that permitted this horror to happen!

Later news reports from the CDC, much less publicized, pared back the ACTUAL COVID cases to 649 cases in 29 states - including one death. Even SNOPES, the LEFT-leaning 'fact checker', has the IZA report at 'Unproven', a version of their participation trophy, indicating a good try!

15 posted on 08/07/2021 8:29:51 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

The MSM and government will be breathlessly reporting the end of the world again, just like last year when NOTHING came of it.


16 posted on 08/07/2021 8:35:20 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

The gooberment will probably throw in some infected illegals to mix and mingle. I feel sorry for these people and how their being used........not the terrorists and punks they’re letting in via the cartels and this sorry Deep Dark State!


17 posted on 08/07/2021 8:35:25 AM PDT by Dawgreg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mercat

Sorry to hear about your pet, but...that story was a pretty good one!


18 posted on 08/07/2021 8:35:42 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk
Warning: language may be offensive to some

Well Said, Cowboy

19 posted on 08/07/2021 8:36:09 AM PDT by HotHunt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mercat
As she lay in her tent she heard a man coming down the row of tents asking, “are you Jewish?” She was sure she was going to be hauled off and killed. Finally the man got to her tent and she decided she had to tell them that, “yes, I’m Jewish.” He said, “Good, we need a tenth for a minion.” She learned a lot that weekend.

Great story. LOL!

20 posted on 08/07/2021 8:46:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson