{"id":79388,"date":"2021-08-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79388"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:10:31","slug":"armageddon-deferred-karen-hardest-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79388","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon Deferred: Karen Hardest Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second straight year, Big Media, serving as the exposed id <\/em>of Big Karen, has predicted the Sturgis motorcycle rally was going to be a “super spreader”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as the event – and the attendant Covid surveillance – unrolled, I started getting the impression that most of the “news” coverage had been written in advance, with blanks let open to fill in the numbers that, one suspects, were expected to be in the thousands, at the very least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when the first take on numbers came out – in the low 100s, across 700,000 attendees – my first response was “that’s probably lower than the infection rate of 700,000 people in the general population”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was right<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before its Aug. 6 opening, the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0ominously\u00a0warned:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSturgis Motorcycle Rally revs up, drawing thousands and heightening delta super spreader fears\u201d; CBS\u00a0blared:<\/a>\u201cSturgis motorcycle rally sparks fears of super spreader event.\u201d<\/p>

But\u00a0like last August<\/a>, the derisive press thankfully didn\u2019t get their wish. Two weeks after the gathering with more than a half-million attendees concluded,\u00a0fewer than 200 cases have been attributed to the event.<\/a><\/p>

The Associated Press still breathlessly\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Sunday that \u201cnearly 4,000 people have been newly diagnosed with COVID-19 in the state,\u201d but later noted that \u201ca South Dakota Department of Health spokesman declined to link the Sturgis rally to the rising virus surge, noting\u00a0only 39<\/em>\u00a0COVID-19 cases directly attributed to the rally.\u201d<\/p>

That such a small number of statewide cases came from Sturgis is a miracle and should have been the headline.<\/p>

On Monday, the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>, whose writers likely could not find South Dakota on a map, claimed \u201cscores of coronavirus cases recorded.\u201d Scores? How many, and compared to what?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, as always, what does that mean, per capita<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If numbers still matter to agenda seekers, the entire U.S. averaged 276 new COVID cases per 100,000 people over 10 days ending last week, while <\/em>the Mount Rushmore State averaged only 156.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Florida’s vaccination rates for the elderly are far better than California and New York, and the fatality rate among a very dense, rather old population, is well down in the middle of the pack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democrats and media (ptr) are going to have to count on their voters legendary lack of facility at critical thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the slant in Covid coverage from the MSM is a sign that Big Left is genuinely worried about DeSantis, Noem and the movements they represent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second straight year, Big Media, serving as the exposed id of Big Karen, has predicted the Sturgis motorcycle rally was going to be a “super spreader”. And as the event – and the attendant Covid surveillance – unrolled, I started getting the impression that most of the “news” coverage had been written in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-karen","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79390,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388\/revisions\/79390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}