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2020-09-03 -Obits-

Biker in his 60s becomes first person to die from COVID-19 after attending Sturgis Motorcycle Rally with 460,000 others - after more than 260 people linked to the event across 11 states were infected

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 260..out of almost half a million. Got it.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-09-03 02:24|| 2020-09-03 02:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Math be hard.

Posted by gorb 2020-09-03 02:28|| 2020-09-03 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 But not the last one.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-03 02:45|| 2020-09-03 02:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Number of bikers who die of the virus in the next year vs the number of bikers killed on the road in the next year?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-03 06:07|| 2020-09-03 06:07|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Question is - how many of their families and neighbors etc... they'll infect? And how many other people it'll be passed then --- that's why it called "chain of infection".

p.s. When we talk about economy, we have to mention average costs of treatment. Additions to existing medical infrastructure. Costs of developing vaccines etc... Not just loses of restaurateurs and gym owners. All this boring & irrelevant external diseconomies staff (your tax $$$).

pp.s. When people die because they don't go to a hospital for fear of CV19 - or because all the resources dedicated to CV19, it's not the "costs of lockdown" it's the costs of not having a lockdown/distancing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-03 06:49|| 2020-09-03 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 about 500 per million stated death risk from covid lockdown fanatics.

So it's just another sign this virus is now statistically benign.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-09-03 06:57|| 2020-09-03 06:57|| Front Page Top

#7 5 people died from accidents at Sturgis.

Posted by Lumpy Slomoting3095 2020-09-03 08:59|| 2020-09-03 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Question is where is the origin of his infection? Any evidence he got it at Sturgis?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-09-03 09:48|| 2020-09-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Some interesting numbers. A lot of the "infections" are asymptomatic.

Viruses will spread, but this isn't worse than anything else we have dealt with. Open stuff up, take reasonable precautions and protect people that are vulnerable. Same as a bad flu year.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-09-03 09:56|| 2020-09-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#10 So known infection rate from Sturgis rally is currently about 3% of the national average, almost a month after the rally started.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-09-03 10:45|| 2020-09-03 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 2-3 weeks past.
260 out of 460,000 test positive.
Positive is not confirmed.
May or may not have contracted at Sturgis.
1 out of 260 dead.
Victim is over 60.
"Underlying Health Conditions."

There in the comments; I dont' understand why people are all hyped up, "Just you wait the bodies will start stacking!"

No. This is great news.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-03 10:55|| 2020-09-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#12 If I am reading the CDC data correctly, of the 171k COVID deaths 76K included COVID and pneumonia, leaving 99k deaths from pneumonia without COVID. (Note CDC data is a few weeks behind 'real time'.)

Oh, and in the same period, there were 1.1 million deaths not involving COVID.

Anecdote: I've had both pneumonia vaccines, totaling 35 different strains of virus, and still managed to catch it twice in the last two years.

It's a dangerous world, out there.

Posted by Bobby 2020-09-03 11:06|| 2020-09-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Kansas Department of Health today:

The Department of Health said a total of 161 lab specimens from 144 individuals showed positive results for COVID-19 using the platform during the period of June 15-July 17. Of those, a total of 91 specimens from 90 people showed false positive results.

Thank goodness, but imagine the stress and grief of the family, friends, and however many degrees of contact people notified.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-03 15:00|| 2020-09-03 15:00|| Front Page Top

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