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A Beach Town’s Gust of Freedom, Then a U-turn (Provincetown's Covid Outbreak)
NY Times ^ | 31 July 2021 | Ellen Barry and Beth Treffeisen

Posted on 07/31/2021 5:54:23 PM PDT by Drew68

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — By the Fourth of July, Provincetown’s tourist season had built to a prepandemic thrum. Restaurants were booked solid, and snaking lines formed outside the dance clubs. There were conga lines, drag brunches and a pervasive, joyous sense of relief.

“We really thought we had beat Covid,” said Alex Morse, who arrived this spring as town manager. “We had internalized those messages, that life will be back to normal. We beat this. We are the most vaccinated community in the state.”

Mr. Morse didn’t think much of it, five days after the holiday, when the town’s Board of Health logged two new cases of coronavirus. A week later, though, the cluster of cases associated with gatherings in Provincetown was growing by 50-to-100 cases per day. Alongside the numbers was an unsettling fact: Most of the people testing positive were vaccinated.

Provincetown, a quirky beach community at the tip of Cape Cod, has provided a sobering case study for the country, abruptly tugging Americans back to the caution of winter and spring.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited the cluster on Friday as key to its decision to issue new indoor mask guidance, saying viral loads among the vaccinated people there were found to be as high as among the unvaccinated.

A community of health-conscious, left-leaning Northeasterners, known as a vacation mecca for gay men, Provincetown had one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, upward of 95 percent among permanent residents, Mr. Morse estimates.

On the weekend of July 4, it was also crowded. Around 60,000 people had jammed into a narrow spit of land, where many congregated, maskless, on sweaty dance floors and at house parties.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: covid; gay; gayorgy; orgy; provincetown
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There were conga lines, drag brunches...

Conga lines and drag brunches. Anything else that gay men do when gathered together in massive numbers?

So we're back to masks and potential lockdowns again due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Provincetown at what the New York Times carefully tiptoes around could best be described as a giant gay orgy.

From Allahpundit:

Here it is: The actual data on which the CDC's new mask guidance is based

1 posted on 07/31/2021 5:54:23 PM PDT by Drew68
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It was some sort of LGBTQWXYZ pervert-rave, but it would be homophobic to mention it.


2 posted on 07/31/2021 5:56:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Drew68

I didn’t even think you could “vaccinate” someone with AIDS.

These guys were idiots. They were idiots before they got COVID, too.


3 posted on 07/31/2021 6:00:00 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Drew68

“quirky”

eyew.


4 posted on 07/31/2021 6:00:10 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ive been mentioning it everywhere I can.


5 posted on 07/31/2021 6:00:41 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Drew68

The local hospitals had more than a year to prepare for any “outbreak”

The entire state should not have to pay the price for their incompetence.


6 posted on 07/31/2021 6:03:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Drew68

The CDC has set fire to any last shred of credibility that they might have once had.

Of course, the RKBA folks wrote them off as a bunch of lying liars who lie back in the 90’s, so this isn’t actually something new for them.


7 posted on 07/31/2021 6:03:18 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
LGBTQWXYZ

From what I understand, mostly just G.

8 posted on 07/31/2021 6:03:19 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Homosexual debauchery had more to do with this than the Ministry of Propaganda will let on.


9 posted on 07/31/2021 6:03:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Drew68

Still, Democrats see no need to be mad at China for creating this bioweapon.


10 posted on 07/31/2021 6:05:31 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Do these guys even worry about getting HIV anymore?


11 posted on 07/31/2021 6:06:43 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Drew68

Dare anyone mention that Fauci was the ringleader of the GRID mafia back in the 80’s?

That was how the national media got to know him so well back then.


12 posted on 07/31/2021 6:08:07 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Provincetown, a quirky beach community at the tip of Cape Cod . . .

A longtime buddy of mine in South Korea told me that damn near 100% of the resurgent outbreaks were in the "gay" community. I asked him why he thought that was.

"Because they do a lot more than eat and drink together," came his sardonic reply.

13 posted on 07/31/2021 6:13:35 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Drew68
The Little female Communists at the Slimes could not state the truth .
It was Gayboy Bear Weekend which is not a place for any normal human to be 50 miles of .
Someone posted that news this morning .
Where were those great whites when you need them .
Plenty of beach whales on those beaches that weekend .
14 posted on 07/31/2021 6:17:42 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: Drew68

Imagine if we policed AIDS this way.


15 posted on 07/31/2021 6:19:02 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Kaslin

Police AIDS/HIV that way?
Hell, Fauci was in charge of federal funding and ALL research grants for that epidemic failure too!


16 posted on 07/31/2021 6:26:46 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Drew68; logi_cal869

COVID JOINS AIDS = COVIAIDS!

Why do they continually mention “Massachusetts”, occasionally “Barnstable County”, but almost never “Provincetown” as the locus of this outbreak?

The Hidden Side of the CDC’s Delta Study and Media Reports

Posted on 7/31/2021, 7:48:46 AM by logi_cal869

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3980876/posts


17 posted on 07/31/2021 6:34:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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“The vaccines are working. Of the 900 cases related to the Provincetown cluster, there have been no deaths, 7 hospitalizations, and the symptoms are largely mild.”

Alex Morse, Town Manager of Provincetown

https://twitter.com/AlexBMorse/status/1421139894257266691

quoted also by:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/31/provincetown-covid-outbreak-shows-vaccines-working/5439120001/


18 posted on 07/31/2021 6:37:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Regardless of the behavior, the vax failed.


19 posted on 07/31/2021 7:00:29 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
The reason for vax failure was the same reason AIDS "prevention" fails. They want it to fail.
20 posted on 07/31/2021 7:07:17 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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