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No question some college students use proceeds from student loans to party during spring break.
No question, spring break crowds attract those whose sole intent is to supply people with drugs and/ or who view visitors as easy prey. More sharks on land than in the water.
Now throw COVID into the mix. Florida has more active COVID variants than any other state.
Then there’s the 500,000 visitors who attended Bike Week in Daytona Beach, last week. This is an older crowd than typical spring breakers.
All these visitors will return to wherever they came from and no question, some will be packing Aggressive COVID variants.
The big biker event in Sturgis, SD in August, 2020 is believed to have been the trigger for the COVID surge in the upper midwest that eventually culminated with the Dakotas have the distinction of having the highest COVID hospitalization and fatality rate in the world.
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What ever happened to that purported Covid spike in response to that massive motorcycle gathering half a year ago.................Crickets....?
Covid is a deadly blood disease and people are just as deadly in destroying economies.
Let Life carry on and let people make the choice to protect themselves.
The Sturgis event in SD is believed to have been the trigger for the COVID surge in the upper Midwest.
The Dakotas achieved the highest COVID hospitalization and fatality rates in the world and it spread throughout the upper Midwest.
The Mayor has the same problem as China Joe and his admin. but China Joe isn't arresting anyone over it but instead is letting them loose !!!
Mr. Mayor let my people go !!!
OP link :
"We've got a problem with too many people coming here. We've got a problem with too many people coming here to let loose."
This week a year ago, Trump announced new Federal guidelines to close schools, non essential businesses and comply with state orders. Most states imposed restrictions. Likely no two states reacted the same way.
One of my personal favorites is the Governor of Wyoming who told his constituents to “stop being knuckleheads” or he was going to impose restrictions. His constituents ignored him. COVID surged. The Governor imposed restrictions. See how that works.
Personal favorite restrictions include those states/ counties/ local governments who decided restaurants had to close by xx:00 or table side was limited to X, because as everyone knows, COVID only emerges after xx:00 or it’s the 5th diner at the table who is shedding the virus.
Most folk like to believe that if they have a true medical emergency, they will be able to receive immediate medical attention. That was not always possible in some areas as hospitals put themselves on diversion. Alternatively, ambulances had to wait to unload because there was no room inside. Massive refrigerated semi trucks stored the corpses because funeral homes/ crematoriums/ cemeteries were full.
Medical professionals, in some hospitals, were forced to decide which patients had the best shot at survival for medical attention.
The entire US hospital system could have collapsed had all states decided to just let it rip. Talk about panic in the streets.
What most people don't know is Sobe has gone downhill for many, many years now. All of the locals I know will not go to the beach anymore. I was there in July as I was visiting back home. I left in 15 mins because I felt unsafe and I kid you not, 20 mins after I left a specific spot I was standing in, a guy was robbed with a gun in broad daylight. It literally has become the wild wild west down there with the shootings, robberies, and stabbings occurring daily.
It's no longer limited to spring break...
So it's like how it was back in the 1980s? Are they going to come out with a new Scarface movie for 2021 Miami?
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Normal people are starting to avoid larger cities around the US for that very reason.
We used to go into St.Louis and Memphis for shows/sporting events, but have curbed those activities and only go to the "safe zones". You can still go into the Fox Theater (when it reopens)without getting rolled, but should probably avoid a Cardinals night game.Memphis is Memphis.
"The Cardinals had overall attendance of 3.48 million at Busch Stadium in the regular season. That ranks second in Major League Baseball, trailing only the Dodgers’ home attendance of 3.97 million. The New York Yankees were third in MLB and tops in the American League with total attendance of 3.3 million at Yankee Stadium."
The Sturgis event in SD is believed to have been the trigger for the COVID surge in the upper Midwest.
The Dakotas achieved the highest COVID hospitalization and fatality rates in the world and it spread throughout the upper Midwest.
The upper midwest Covid crisis was anchored around the meat packing industry and (in Nebraska) a large quincinera.
Many of these are illegals that can't stay home from work, didn't get a stimulus check, live multi-generational housing and don't have healthcare etc. making them particularily vulnerable.
I've not seen anything scientific pinning things on Sturgis and while I'm sure it didn't help, be very careful about what news sources are choosing to report in an effort to provide tasty affirmation.
People this ISN"T about masks or contracting the Rona. It's about the crowd that is currently in Miami Beach. Stop mixing the two
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