Originally Posted by
Mesabah
The model was built off cell phone traffic, and the spike of cases in August in South Dakota. The problem is that North Dakota had the same spike(actually a higher one), starting well before Sturgis. On top of that, the simulated linear model is laughable.
They don't care however, the article generated the headlines, and that's all they wanted to do.
Boy on September 13th, everyone was sure that that Sturgis rally forecast model was nonsense. But COVID moves slowly. And all those bikers went to the rally, infected each other, and then drove home to their Upper Midwestern towns. It was like a slow motion bomb went off.
This is where we are 2 months later. Sturgis, SD is literally the epicenter.
boom.