Covid at Sturgis

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Steve Smith

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Aug 12, 2020, 12:39:13 PM8/12/20
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One of the symptoms of Covid-19 infection is a loss of taste.It occurred to me that some of the attendees might never be able to tell if that happens.

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Jim Kerick

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Aug 12, 2020, 1:17:58 PM8/12/20
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He certainly doesn't have a lack of iron 

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WAYNE EVERMAN

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Aug 12, 2020, 2:34:27 PM8/12/20
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A CBX6 chopper?!  At least it sounds good! TCD

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Vince M Lane

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Aug 12, 2020, 2:59:26 PM8/12/20
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Having owned 2 Electra Glides I can attest to the fact that they no longer leak oil, are extremely reliable and can be ridden all day long in complete comfort.  If your idea of motorcycling is touring the country on the Interstate Highway System they are hard to beat.  I'm guessing you'll be able to pick up a nice one cheap come the end of September at an estate sale near you.  The CBX chopper might be available as well.  


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sfr4201

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Aug 12, 2020, 3:32:25 PM8/12/20
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I really sincerely hoping we are all wrong on all of this,come end of August is the big time worry.ln the meantime,MOTORADO will possibly need to start looking for a bigger location,that is if Vince's prediction of a glut of Harleys becomes reality!!Sure commercial property is going for close to nothing right now.............



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Norman Wright

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Aug 12, 2020, 3:40:26 PM8/12/20
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Does this mean the 1% may be down to the 1/2%ers?  Seeing lots of Harleys in the mountains going in both directions.

Steve Smith

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Aug 12, 2020, 3:44:34 PM8/12/20
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I’d like to be wrong about it but the reports and pictures coming out of Sturgis are troubling to say the least. They’re acting like COVID is non-existent. It appears that no distancing is happening and it’s unlikely that a lot of hand sanitizer is being used. There are reports that people wearing masks are being ridiculed. What could possibly go wrong.

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Curtis Graves

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Aug 12, 2020, 3:48:24 PM8/12/20
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I always wonder if these people experience regret. For example, when they get a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, do they say, “I wish I had worn a helmet?” or do they double down? When they’re lying in the hospital on a ventilator, do they say, “Maybe masks aren’t so bad after all”?

DAN PILCHER

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Aug 12, 2020, 10:52:48 PM8/12/20
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I agree with Vince.  In a few months, the used bike market could be flooded with Harleys if Sturgis indeed becomes a "super-spreader event."   If I can buy a relatively new 1200 Sportster variant for peanuts, well . . . . I'll ask Curtis for advice.

One of the saddest news clips that I have recently seen, however, was of a young man in Texas in an ICU.  He had gone to a party titled a "Covid 19 party." 

His last words were:  "I think I made a mistake."

I hope it does not happen, but there may be many Sturgis bikers who will think or say the same thing . . . I hate to think what will happen when they return to their homes, families, friends and jobs and unwittingly infect more people.

Finally, as an ex-journalist having paid attention to the news media coverage of Sturgis since 2005 when I first went, I have never seen so much national coverage of Sturgis as has happened this year.  A dubious distinction . . . 

Dan



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