So SD benefited financially from Sturgis Bike Rally. However I wonder if the other states can send their additional healthcare bills to Kristi Noem for payment? Since FOX is reporting that 20% of the US COVID cases have been tied to that one super spreader event. :-O
I did some math to see the SD cost in lives... If the Sturgis super spreader caused an additional 5,000 cases in SD. And if the SD death rate is 14 per 1,000 cases... Then apparently SD paid for Sturgis with ~70 lives. Not sure if that was a good trade off or not... 🙂 🙁
It is hard to fight the after event data in this case... And see my post on the MN delays if you doubt that more deaths are coming to SD. Hopefully fewer if the case load was younger and healthier...
6 comments:
South Dakota is and always has been dependent on Minnesota. It's the way federalism works, and I don't really have a problem with that. Minnesotans are generous people.
--Hiram
BS. total deaths per 500,000 bikers = 1.
Source please...
So what do you think caused an increase of ~5,000 cases ~3 weeks after Sturgis?
The health problems related to the virus from Sturgis or anywhere else are an American problem. Viruses don't know borders. States like South Dakota have a parasitic relationship with their neighbors, but that doesn't mean the people who live in them aren't Americans.
--Hiram
An different view
The different view would be that problems related to pandemics are local. I just have to disagree with that. Viruses just aren't respecters of boundaries. Surely recent history has proven that.
--Hiran
Post a Comment