More than 70 cases of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, have been traced to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, an annual South Dakota event that went on this year despite the pandemic, CNN reported.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the rally brings hundreds of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts each year for ten days to the otherwise-sleepy South Dakota town. And even though this year there was (and is) a deadly global pandemic raging, the rally was not canceled, and indeed, local and state officials made little effort, beyond offering non-binding health guidance, to prevent the rally, limit its size, or enforce masks or social distancing.
Indeed, the attitude around town towards the pandemic was one of outright hostility: as HuffPost reported, the 90s band Smashmouth, playing to an audience of mostly-maskless revelers, shouted “F*ck that COVID sh*t!”
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