Motorcycles and people crowd Main Street during the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota August 7, 2020. — AFP pic
In past years, the 10-day rally in the town of Sturgis has drawn hundreds of thousands of bikers to socialise, drink and party together — raising fears among some locals that this year’s version could be a superspreader event. South Dakota, site of the famed massive sculpture of four former presidents on Mount Rushmore — where President Donald Trump held a rally last month — is one of the few to have never ordered a lockdown or insisted on mask-wearing.
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