That will be a large happening.

My understanding is that approx. 250,000 bikers showed up in Sturgis and that these bikers were from all over the U.S.. As this event breaks up and these bikers go back to their respective home states one could predict that we'll see a rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths as a result.

Will we be able to track that increase? Who will be doing the tracking? Will it be apparent that this Sturgis event is responsible for any rise?

It will be a small but noticeable increase in cases across almost every state. Hawaii excepted.

for a surge in used motorcycles for sale

Our hospital is already full, we don't have the health care infrastructure to handle this, and in person school classes start today with optional masks.

But my neighbors tell me this is overblown, they "are done with it".

Dancers on the decks of the Titanic. The music plays and they whirl and cavort. Meanwhile...

What's worse the pandemic or the rather casual and even contradictory approach to it? One thing leads to another. The more people equivocate and retreat into denial the worse this will get and exponential growth is what we appear to have. Double this, double that, double it again.

I am prepared for this to be unimaginably out of control and devastating under these conditions. The streams of false narratives and duplicity combined with people thinking that science is subject to mere opinions and their beliefs is sealing our fate in the respect.