As predicted, the Sturgis event spread the virus far and wide. leading to outbreaks all over the country:
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The researchers found that the rally, which hosted 462,182 people between Aug. 7 and 16, “generated substantial public health costs,” totaling $12.2 billion. (That calculation is based on figures on health care costs associated with the coronavirus from another IZA study.) The authors note that the cost was “enough to have paid each of the estimated 462,182 rally attendees $26,553.64 not to attend.”

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They could have saved a lot of money by buying every single one of them a new Harley Heritage Classic to stay home.

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