Sea Otter Classic Postpones Spring Event to October 2021
The 2021 Sea Otter Classic dates have been moved October 7-10. The event was scheduled for May 20-23, a month later than usual, but the organization announced that after conversations with health and permitting officials, the festival could not go on as planned.
 | After recent discussions with health and permitting officials, we’ve determined we will not be able to conduct an event in May. Sea Otter Classic will be held October 7-10, 2021 We’re excited to host the world’s premiere cycling festival in Monterey in October. Put us on your calendar to celebrate Sea Otter’s grand reopening with your friends and family. |
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I guess I can see the lawsuit headlines.
“Mike Levy, former Pinkbike journalist jailed for gross negligence while providing the worlds fastest mountain cycle”
I'm not going to argue about masks because I think they help slightly and even at that, you'll have me admit defeat. I will say it's ironic for a Canadian to talk about masks working without mentioning the Canadian nursing lawsuit and the 70+ studies cited during the trial.
"While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs."
As a scientist, I don't like people using the phrase "I believe and trust the science" Also peer reviewed data can still have problems.
Social distancing of course works, it's also not free.
You've got two countries: One led by someone who's spent a lot of their time playing golf, consuming conspiracy theories and mashing their hands into their phone screen on twitter. The other by someone who holds twice daily briefings with country's leading epidemiologists, economists and health officials and uses the information gathered each day to plot the way forward and inform the population about what's going on.
Do the math dude, it's not hard to work out who's coming out on top in this one.
It's pretty kickass being able to travel around the latter and ride as much as we like.
Cool trump rant dude, I didn't vote for the guy and think he did a pretty bad job. But blaming him for not turning the US into a small island with a fraction of the population doesn't make your argument any stronger. How'd Europe or our neighbors to the south do?
I can travel as much as I like and didn't have to get tackled for leaving my house for 110 days. Civil liberties aren't easily given back, you'll see that in 6 months.
Because the trust the science crowd screamed in my face for 9 months about how lockdowns work while cases sky rocketed and small businesses collapsed. Because trust the science crowd closed outdoor dining, even after test and trace data came out that showed 9/10 cases were from indoor and interfamily. Because trust the science crowd has complete monomania and threw the baby with the bathwater out regarding schools and civil liberties being taken. IMO, riots this past summer, and insanity that happened last week in DC will eventually be written about through the lens of mental break down in this country. We've never taken it seriously, and our reaction to the virus has exasperated the problem.
Thank god for mountain bikes.
Long version. That is something of a nightmare scenario even compared to now. As far as the data goes Covid kills 1.0 to 1.5 percent of victims if proper care is available, if medical care isn't given it jumps over 5 percent. If allowed to spread unchecked in the US that would equate to over 3 million dead within a year or so, then several hundred thousand each year after that, assuming hospital care remained available. That kind of drop in population normally only happens in genocides and wars, in fact even with current measures Covid will soon overtake US combat losses from World War 2, in 12 months, it's nuts.
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Masks and basic disease control measures (wash hands, disinfect everything regularly) do work, the problem is getting everyone to follow them without exception. Short of martial law I don't see how the US can achieve that. In America there's simply too much distrust of the government and not always unfairly.
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Should vaccination fail, the only hope would be that coronaviruses and flu-like viruses trend towards decreasing lethality over time. Dead hosts spread disease poorly, all the same that's not a route I want to consider seriously.
I can totally blame the mental breakdown that led to lack of perspective to this summers events. I can say the same thing for the bullshit that happened last week. Being on social media is unhealthy and exasperates your sub concious viewpoints. If i see a picture of a dude with a dead rhino next to a rifle he just shot, I inherently think that the reason rhino's are going extinct is because of hunters. I should obviously be outraged! People only read headlines and look at pictures to support their awful narrative. Maybe get a better perspective and read some peer reviewed or non partisan articles before yammering on about how I'm a selfish twat not following protocols.
also you should know the difference between subconcious and unconcious.
what kind of "scientist" are you and what are your credentials? what is your line of research besides trolling pinkbike?
That's all I'm getting at. I much prefer to remain anonymous online.
Not everyone wants to live in a nanny state. Do you wear a full face during cross country rides? Lol
Pretty certain when they say "We will rely on the protocols from Monterey County and the State of California." they actually HAVE a plan, which, as the norm, would include a register of ALL visitors/competitors, mandatory face masks when indoors (possibly outdoors too because hey, social distancing just doesnt happen at trade shows), mandatory check ins (as in track and trace apps) the list goes on.
Absolutely nothing. More junk science.
So to me lockdowns / shutdowns and social distancing are worth the effort.
We just do it wrong in the US; had we been more rigorous, consistent in messaging, and avoided this silly "my mask violates my FreEdoMs!!" problem we would be better off.
Come tell me that to my face, and the rest of the family (there are 19 cousins in my generation...) as well, that my grandma needs to quit being a cuck and grow a pair, see what happens...
I stand by my statement that we got to learn to live with it as this it's now part of life. We live with the flu, which kills a shit ton of people still. We live with bad food bad water given to us by corporations. And we live with alcohol that ruins more lives than any virus ever could. Where is your outrage there? Where is the outrage for people who get killed by drunken drivers or beat the shit out their spouses or kids?Why does alcohol still exist knowing that its a leathal killer, huh?
that should actually tell you infections would be even worse if safety measures were not followed.
You are probably right in thinking that covid-19 (and future pandemics) are and will be a way of life going forward. But that doesn't mean abandoning protective measures is the right thing to do.
@Thirty3: Ever thought of taking Elon up on his request for 1-way Mars exploration volunteers?
www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-mars-explorers-sxsw-south-by-southwest-austin-texas-today-2018-03-13
We cannot continue this direction we are being led, for it will prove the ruin of many more in ways other than the demise from the virus itself.
Time to come face to face Man with the reality that we are being pawned and played.