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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

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The NYT eventually says this:

“We were told, ‘Now you’re vaccinated, and everyone is vaccinated, you can go out and live the pre-Covid lifestyle,’” he said. “People did, they were living with gusto. We were led to believe, ‘If you get the vaccine, you can go to a dance club, you can go to a house party and meet someone and make out.’ That’s what we thought the situation was.”

By the end of the week, Mr. Katsurinis was taking reports of positive coronavirus cases — all gay men, with an average age of 30 to 35, many of whom who had seen a doctor for other reasons, like flu symptoms or sexually transmitted infections, not suspecting the coronavirus. What puzzled him, he said, was that so many of the infected people were vaccinated.


21 posted on 07/31/2021 7:18:40 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov; Drew68

The NYT eventually says this:

“We were told, ‘Now you’re vaccinated, and everyone is vaccinated, you can go out and live the pre-Covid lifestyle,’” he said. “People did, they were living with gusto. We were led to believe, ‘If you get the vaccine, you can go to a dance club, you can go to a house party and meet someone and make out.’ That’s what we thought the situation was.”

By the end of the week, Mr. Katsurinis was taking reports of positive coronavirus cases — all gay men, with an average age of 30 to 35, many of whom who had seen a doctor for other reasons, like flu symptoms or sexually transmitted infections, not suspecting the coronavirus. What puzzled him, he said, was that so many of the infected people were vaccinated.

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Sounds like their reaction to PrEP.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html


22 posted on 07/31/2021 7:22:51 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Drew68

Gay guys are always so neat and clean on the outside. Questionable hygiene practices tho.


23 posted on 07/31/2021 7:39:19 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Drew68

Provincetown, a quirky beach community = full of homosexuals


24 posted on 07/31/2021 7:46:21 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Drew68

You can’t vaccinate people with a compromised immune system, but these cases will still be cited as evidence that the vaccine doesn’t work for the rest of us.


25 posted on 07/31/2021 8:36:25 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Drew68

As long as dhimmicrats live there will be no peace.


26 posted on 07/31/2021 9:07:05 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Drew68

This is the town where the fisherman lives who got swallowed by a whale last month … just sayin …


27 posted on 07/31/2021 10:25:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Rom 8:1 … No means No)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Province town is all gay and with HIV they are compromised, figures


28 posted on 08/01/2021 4:23:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Homosexual debauchery had more to do with this than the Ministry of Propaganda will let on.

It's tagged NSFW but there's no photos, only text describing what took place that week.

I'm one of the P-Town Positives, and I feel like the CDC is missing a key detail

29 posted on 08/01/2021 8:12:54 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Gene Eric
Regardless of the behavior, the vax failed.

That depends.

Is the point of the vaccination to prevent people from getting COVID or is the point of the vaccination to prevent people from getting really sick or dying from COVID?

If it's the former, clearly the vaccines are not effective. But now people will move the goalposts and point to the huge number of positive cases in P-town and say the vaccines worked because there were only a few hospitalizations and zero deaths amongst the vaccinated population. But here we're talking about a population of mostly men in their 30s. Gay or not, these aren't a high-risk category for COVID mortality which, as we have known from the beginning, is mostly devastating to the elderly and morbidly obese.

You could look at P-town and conclude that the vaccines really made no difference. Old people are still going to get COVID and die while younger people are still going to get COVID and survive. And I say this as a vaccinated person, FWIW.

30 posted on 08/01/2021 9:37:41 AM PDT by Drew68
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It seems to me that the Provincetown residents who are HIV positive - not to mention individuals with full blown AIDS - may already have weakened immune systems which cannot be as well protected by the vaccines as uncompromised immune systems.

It is not my intention to be judgemental here. My intention is to shine a light on the way in which a "quirky" place like Provincetown is being trotted out by the clueless as the "norm" for the rest of the country in terms of new COVID-19 outbreaks.

31 posted on 08/01/2021 10:34:42 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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