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Letter: An experiment in Sturgis

(Grace Pritchett | Rapid City Journal | AP) People ride through downtown Sturgis, S.D., during the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020.

(Grace Pritchett | Rapid City Journal | AP) People ride through downtown Sturgis, S.D., during the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020.

In the first 24 hours of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, 84 arrests, 226 citations and 18 crashes were reported.

One can only hope that the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention or some other higher education group is doing a scientific study of these individuals. It would be “almost” impossible to get a group of sane or even rational people to volunteer for such an experiment.

My money is on the virus.

Robert Hoff, Taylorsville

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