Continuing on the Silicon Valley is not a rare and isolated two-headed unicorn theme, and referring to my comment above about running events being back to pre-Covid normal ...
To the best of my knowledge, the world's largest running event organizer is the Rock 'n' Roll Running Series. Some events have half marathons plus other distances, and some have marathons plus other distances.
In the coming 12 months,
https://www.runrocknroll.com/all-events , RnR has events in Salt Lake City (August), San Jose (September/October), Clearwater (October), Manila (November), San Antonio (December), Tempe (January), Las Vegas (February), Washington, DC (March), Nashville (April), and San Diego (June). They also have "TBD" events announced Toluca City, Mexico and Madrid, Spain. RnR events typically have thousands of runners among the several distances, some from other nations. Less popular events, such as San Jose, have several thousand finishers (~6000 in 2022), while, for example, Las Vegas had about triple that number. RnR is a BIG operation,
spread across the US and to other countries, mega-expensive to operate, and they are operating on a scale - number of events, and number of runners and volunteers - about the same as pre-Covid.
If The Vaccine is deadly, how is that possible?What was once, I think, the world's second largest running event organizer, Run Disney, several years pre-Covid had discontinued doing running events in Disney Land (Anaheim), due to construction being done in the park. That construction was completed around 2019, but then came Covid. Finally this year, Run Disney announced that they would be resuming running events in Anaheim (partly in city streets, partly in Downtown Disney, and partly in the park). Anaheim is 400-500 miles from Silicon Valley. Is that far enough away to not be a rare and isolated two-headed unicorn? Or might it be imagined to be another, despite the tyrannous state government Covid shutdown damaging the business of the park, Downtown Disney, and the hotels owned and operated by Disney.
Again if The Vaccine is deadly, how is this possible? Is Run Disney dumping gobs of money, messing with City of Anaheim traffic, messing with Downtown Disney operations, and messing with park operation for running events that can have few participants?Yeah, I know, TMI.
It's easier to make the silly claim that Silicon Valley is a rare and isolated two-headed unicorn that gets special treament from government than it is to post and describe evidence - you know, facts - that disprove this silliness. Moving on ...
Along about 2014, a young running couple (Mike is a 7-Continent Marathoner and closing in on becoming a 50-State Marathoner) thought it would be a great service to the running community to create a sort of
Yelp-For-Runners (my turn of phrase). They knew running is a narrow enough interest that they could weed out phony reviews
(the estimate I saw 5 or 10 years ago was that around 1/3 of Yelp reviews are phony, and with more recent political attacks, it's probably gotten worse). In 8+ years, their reviews database has probably grown into numbering 5 figures. Some reviewers, over the years, have posted over 100 reviews, and there may be some (not me, yet) with over 200.
Getting to the point, their site's front page,
https://raceraves.com , has a list of the most recent reviews, updated as reviews are posted. The most recent 10 reviews are dated July 16 and 17, of events in Florida, South Carolina, Utah, Wisconsin, Colorado, Alaska, Washington, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Michigan. Selecting "See More Raves", it can be seen there were 10 reviews ("Raves") posted
on just the 16th.
It isn't just SF Bay Area running events, large and small, that are back to pre-Covid normal, that is true nationwide.
Silicon Valley is not a rare and isolated two-headed unicorn, and again, if The Vaccine is deadly, how can there be hundreds of running events, large and small, all across the US every weekend?!Causes have effects;
The Vaccine has not had the claimed effect.