South Dakota governor defends Sturgis rally: It’s about ‘personal choices’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) defended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally that brought hundreds of thousands of people to the state, defending against critics who say it was irresponsible to have the rally during a surge of COVID-19 cases.
“I think it’s interesting that this side, this political party, the Democrats, who embrace getting abortion on demand, are accusing us of embracing death when we’re just allowing people to make personal choices and have personal responsibility over when they want to assemble, when they want to gather and spend time outdoors enjoying their way of life,” Noem said Friday on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”
“So we’ve had a fantastic event here in South Dakota. The rally will end … Sunday, I guess … and they’re having a fantastic time. We’re glad everybody made the trip to South Dakota,” she added.
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Last year’s rally had 460,000 people show up in the area. There were $12.2 billion in health care costs related to the event, an analysis done by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics showed.
The analysis has been criticized since it was published, with Noem calling it “fiction.”
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South Dakota governor defends Sturgis rally amid COVID-19 surge: It's about "personal choices" https://t.co/v0Dp1T9lfB pic.twitter.com/Qab7X4x5uS
— The Hill (@thehill) August 14, 2021
Photos of the Week: Motorcycle enthusiasts gather for a group photo during the 81st annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Aug. 8 in Sturgis, S.D. The rally is expected to draw more than 500,000 people during its 10-day run. pic.twitter.com/0GnJboLUOw
— The Hill (@thehill) August 13, 2021
No, governor. It’s about saving lives, which I guess you and the rest of the Trump cult really don’t care about.
The Sturgis bike rally started Aug. 6 pic.twitter.com/uN2B052GjE
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 22, 2021
A “personal choice” is choosing which pair of shoes to wear that day. It never has been about being able to spread a potentially deadly disease to everyone around you. What part of that do these idiots not understand? And I wish when they say stupid stuff like that the media would set them straight about the difference between picking out a tie and making others sick with your irresponsible behavior. Freedom is not being able to do whatever you feel like regardless of how it affects others. This is stuff our parents taught us when we were kids. What happened to them?
No one could have predicted this and only commie America-haters would have said anything about it https://t.co/LmtglPvqEG
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 24, 2021
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