These are the so called patriots, let freedom ring at the expense of others!
‘No One I Know Is Vaccinated’: Sturgis Rally Bikers Are Coming for America
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is all about crowds.
But in August 2021, it’s not just the crowds that have epidemiologists freaking out. It’s who is in them.
Interviews this week suggest many attendees of the days-long death march here are unvaccinated people who, in addition to often refusing masks, are rejecting the best tool there is to curb the raging pandemic.
It’s not exactly shocking that the hundreds of thousands of people packing into a crowded event like this one—led by pandemic skeptics like Gov. Kristi Noem—would be disproportionately composed of the unvaccinated. But experts suggested the event’s wide reach, along with the spiral of the new and unrelenting Delta variant, could spell nationwide disaster.
“Hope’s not a strategy right now. Vaccination is,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota professor of public health and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy who advised the Joe Biden transition, told The Daily Beast. “And there will be people who will be infected as a result of this event.
“The question for everybody is, how many?”
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/sturgis-rally-bikers-in-south-dakota-are-unvaccinated-unmasked-and-coming-for-america?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
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