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Bradley Brownell
Yesterday 10:00PM • Filed to: STURGIS

The town of Sturgis, South Dakota is about to swell its capacity for a week starting this Friday. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic which has killed nearly 700,000 people worldwide as of this writing, the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will go on as planned. The town’s population of around 7,000 will swell by an expected 250,000 bikers this week. The steady stream of thumping V-twins has already started, and it will continue unabated until August 16th.

With an estimated quarter million participants, the 80th Sturgis promises to be certainly among the largest public event held since the pandemic began, if not the largest. In a normal year the rally would expect to host nearly half a million bikers, but conservative estimates see that number halving.

South Dakota residents, despite the state never having locked down at all, are rightfully worried that the influx of riders from all around the country are going to bring an unmanageable coronavirus outbreak to the rural region. More than 60 percent of the town’s residents were in favor of postponing the rally out of fear for the virus, but following threats of legal action on behalf of local businesses which make a large portion of their annual income during the rally, the City Council ruled in favor of going forward with the rally regardless.

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