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Sturgis Rally, 2020: super spreader event?Ah,no.

WaPo admits, a year later, that the media hyped the supposed danger of outdoor gatherings.

The Washington Post quietly admitted this week that mainstream media outlets were wrong to panic over crowds in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. and Clearwater Beach, Fla., last year during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Post report headlined, "A year into the pandemic, it’s even more clear that it’s safer to be outside," essentially proving the media narrative was wildly overblown.  

"For more than a year, the vast majority of documented coronavirus clusters have been linked to indoor or indoor-outdoor settings — households, meatpacking plants, nursing homes and restaurants. Near-absent are examples of transmission at beaches and other open spaces where breezes disperse airborne particles, distancing is easier, and humidity and sunlight render the coronavirus less viable," Post reporters Karin Brulliard and Lenny Bernstein wrote.

CNN was among the biggest contributors to panic at the thought of outdoor gatherings. Brian Stelter shamed partiers crowded at a Lake of the Ozarks pool for "obviously" ignoring warnings from health officials, the network closely monitored anyone who attended the pool party who eventually tested positive, and footage of the crowded Florida beaches was plastered across the network.

"Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said an extensive tracing effort found no major coronavirus clusters connected to the weekend, though a few individuals were infected," the Post reported.

"From that event that attracted national attention, we didn’t see any kind of spreader or superspreader even," Williams added.

For another example, here’s press coverage on the Sturgis Rally, replete with scare headline. “COVID-19 cases tied to the Sturgis motorcycle rally have reached across state lines”

The media played up a non-peer reviewed “study” that the press claimed showed that 260,000 Covid cases could be traced back to the rally. Even Snopes debunked this nonsense, yet I still see that number repeated as fact today. A fake crisis is too good to waste.