When the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally opens Aug. 7 in South Dakota, it will probably be the largest gathering of humanity anywhere in the world this year. Organizers expect a quarter of a million people to attend over its 10 days.
“The City of Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is an icon of American Freedom and Independence,” said the City Council in a June press release that confirmed the rally would go ahead, despite daily increases in recorded cases of the COVID-19 virus.
American Free-dumb, more like. The Black Hills will be a petri dish of contagion, spreading back through the United States after the partying rally-goers return home in mid-August. Contact tracing will be near-impossible and pointless.
LIBERTARIANVILLE (August 6) —
I’d rather be on a slab in the morgue
than to cover my mouth with a mask. It
is my choice, I choose to live free.
Also, I got a great deal on a casket.
So I infect others? Boohoo! Too bad.
It's a free country. YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!
If you choose to suck in my air,
and get stuck by the virus, I don’t really care
about you and your kind, you sissy sod.
Stay out of my way and hands off my Hog.