“Even for us — even for gay men who have been in the gay nightlife scene for years and years, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to go to a meeting with 10 CDC epidemiology experts and explain the intricacies of Circuit Week versus Bear Week and just how many hundreds of people they can squeeze into those spaces with terrible music. I’ve been telling my friends, you haven’t lived until you’ve talked about twinks with the CDC.
I heard in one of those early meetings that the contact tracers had reported back and they said, ‘These are the most cooperative people we’ve ever worked with — we have people giving us their entire itineraries and the names and phone numbers of everybody that were in their house.'”— New York City-based tech data scientist-turned-amateur COVID-19 watcher Michael Donnelly, whose observations about his own community’s COVID experiences in Provincetown, MA were integral in the CDC catching the trend early enough to take significant action.
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nitejonboy
Maybe that’s because we know a little something about watching a horrifying virus wipe out large swaths of our community..so we’re cooperating and being good people and helping in whatever way we can, which is what everyone should be doing…get the f’ing vaccine if you haven’t yet!!
Chrisk
Ironically most of the anti maskers today were the same shitheads that were condemning gay men for being promiscuous and deserving of aids.
jayceecook
Amazingly put. Sad that apparently the CDC folks didn’t make the same connection.
carllonghorn
Well said, nitejonboy. Sick of people acting like this is some sort of drill and doesn’t affect them. Of course it was the same with the other epidemic – nobody cared until it killed someone close to them, and even then, sometimes that didn’t matter either. It took a fellow actor dying to get the president to even mention the word in public. Our community has generally learned many lessons about personal responsibility and taking responsibility for that community, lessons not so forthcoming with the general population. If I hear one more parent say they don’t want their kids to learn fear, so no masks required, I will throw up. Doesn’t matter that they strap helmets and seatbelts on the little darlings every day. Get the shot!
whereshouldistart
IKR? You put all the medications on the top shelf. You put a helmet on them when they rode a bike. You warned them about strangers.
Now that there’s a dangerous monster on the loose, you don’t give a shit?
WTF did you do all that for, just to let them die so…what…you could OWN THE LIBS???
Tad
I agree, after decades of dealing with HIV/AIDS, we as a whole know a thing or two. I’m glad that the younger generation has continued with knowing what to do despite most of the not having been born during the early years of the crisis.
I only wish that the people who are still fighting vaccination would just shut up, get the vaccine and cooperate so that we can all go back to a more normal life.
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Too many are dead,and we did not have social media,today,we do not know how to communicate any longer and we have allowed the toxic theology of calvanism and orthodox catholicism to poison the mind,think,Hitler’s Pope Pius XII,never went away,and never felt compelled to explain or answer anything,Republican Fasism,1924 ,the act to block Jews from ever entering America again,this upset Hitler,we must out do America,we started official Exclusionary laws against Jewry,Hitler only felt bound to push eugenics further,for truth,Virginia hated White Trash,not colored people,a law passed to have feeble whites grades given to the County Sherriff,the Sherriff took said reports to the county Judge,county Judge issued a writ for sherriff to pick up said white trash,transport to state hospital at Blacksburg.there you 2 ways of release,lobotomy or sterilization.the Supreme Court of America upheld this,oliver Wendell Holmes ,wrote for the majority. Note these are Trumps base,does that tell you anything?