Lake Missouri in the Ar Zarks area hosted a major motorcycle rally last week, a few weeks after its similar rally in South Dakota connected to the Covid-19 transmission.
Ar Zarks’ 14th annual Bikefest Lake began on Wednesday, September 16 and ended on Sunday, September 20. Lasted until 20. Earlier rallies had numbered more than 100,000 in the area, NBC affiliate KSDK reported.
The event featured a vending area, more than 50 live shows, more than 300 “biker-friendly” bars, rest restaurants, rentals and hotels, and a Harley-Davidson website.
“I would stay home if I was worried about getting sick, but I wanted to have some fun,” one attendee told MSNBC, who said the 2020 event was “comparable in size” to previous events.
Videos posted on social media showed some of the masks worn by the pool of people attending the Ar Xarx Bikefest.
This isn’t the first time the Missouri vacation area has been in the news for mass gatherings during the coronavirus epidemic. After videos of packed pool parties at Memorial Day weekend surfaced, state health officials asked people to self-quarantine.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
When Missouri lifted its final statewide ban on coronavirus in June, about 15,000 Kovid-19 cases were reported in the state. As of September, the state’s Kovid-19 case count had risen significantly to 112,844 as of Monday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said.
The August Gust motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, was definitely linked to 19 Covid-19 cases and at least one death in eight states.
One study estimates that hitting that biker could result in more than 250,000 cases.
In March, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Berks, predicted that if U.S. Covid-19 deaths will reach 200,000, “if we work almost perfectly.”
About six months later, on Saturday, the U.S. It crossed that milestone in 2020 with 200,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths, no sight to be missed.
