'If you want to wear a mask, that's your business. If you don't, that's your business,' said Sturgis Motorcycle Rally attendee Pam Williamson of Kansas.
South Dakota reported a 68 percent rise in COVID-19 cases, largely in part due to the Delta variant, days before the state's annual 81st Sturgis Motorcycle Rally began on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
Pam Williamson, an event attendee from Kansas, said"it's just nice to see everybody out and about, being able to just be friends with everybody." On Thursday, the eve of the official opening, downtown Sturgis was clogged with Harleys, rallygoers packed shoulder-to-shoulder at bars and rock shows, and masks were nowhere in sight.
Public health experts—and some locals—worry the rally will again play host to coronavirus infections. Only about 46 percent of adults who live in the county that hosts Sturgis are fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. CDC, compared with 60.6 percent nationwide. Virus infections are on the rise in South Dakota after a steady decline through the spring and early summer.
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