> The cellphone tracking data showed about 10% of Sturgis attendees hailed from within South Dakota, with about 19% from border states and 72% from across the rest of the country, with heavy attendance from Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington and Wyoming.
I find this aspect far more upsetting than the stupidity of the event itself. It's one thing when a bunch of locals decide to congregate in an environment they really shouldn't be, but another thing entirely when it's 400,000 people biking across the country.
Ironically - or perhaps not - I saw an NPR article ~a week ago[1] indicating the infection rate in Sturgis and its county, while certainly higher than it was before the rally, wasn't as catastrophic as you'd expect. Apparently, many people who live in Sturgis left town or just tried to avoid contact with anyone that weekend. Can't find any up to date information on whether the infection rate has increased since then with more time/testing, though.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...