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camp guy · 04-27-2021, 09:02 AM

Ok, Woodsy, it may look that simple, but it is not that simple. Bike Week brings a lot of bikers to a relatively small area (Weirs Beach), and then a lot more people attend Bike Week as spectators (not bikers), and who's to say that at some point the COVID virus isn't passed from one to another. So, then, each of these groups return to their usual places of living, mingle with their usual friends, and if one of these people is infected there is a strong possibility that this infection could be passed to others who didn't attend Bike Week. In other words, not going to Bike Week is not guaranteed assurance that you are not going to be exposed to COVID. From having attended Bike Week in the past as a spectator, and from looking at pictures of Bike Week in the past, it doesn't appear to me that social distancing is part of anybody's plan when they attend Bike Week. I fully recognize the HUGE economic impact Bike Week has on the local (and wider) area, but I also recognize that an outbreak of COVID could have terrible consequences in the other direction.

04-27-2021, 09:02 AM	#22
camp guy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: formerly Winter Harbor, still Wolfeboro Posts: 1,224 Thanks: 317 Thanked 560 Times in 310 Posts	Bike week Ok, Woodsy, it may look that simple, but it is not that simple. Bike Week brings a lot of bikers to a relatively small area (Weirs Beach), and then a lot more people attend Bike Week as spectators (not bikers), and who's to say that at some point the COVID virus isn't passed from one to another. So, then, each of these groups return to their usual places of living, mingle with their usual friends, and if one of these people is infected there is a strong possibility that this infection could be passed to others who didn't attend Bike Week. In other words, not going to Bike Week is not guaranteed assurance that you are not going to be exposed to COVID. From having attended Bike Week in the past as a spectator, and from looking at pictures of Bike Week in the past, it doesn't appear to me that social distancing is part of anybody's plan when they attend Bike Week. I fully recognize the HUGE economic impact Bike Week has on the local (and wider) area, but I also recognize that an outbreak of COVID could have terrible consequences in the other direction.