Inside Provincetown’s ‘Herculean’
effort to save the summer from monkeypox
Boston Globe,
by
Alexander Thompson
&
Kay Lazar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/21/2022 12:10:53 AM
Provincetown–Dr. Andy Jorgensen knew he was in a race against time.
By early June it was clear the outbreak of monkeypox, a relative of smallpox that is rarely fatal but causes a painful rash that can last for weeks, was spreading through the gay community.(Snip)Gates had trawled through Instagram, individually messaging people to invite them to town halls and to get vaccinated. Community leaders enlisted bartenders and drag queens to spread information further, Gates said. Now, during Bear Week, when thousands descended on Provincetown to celebrate the culture of the bearded and burly gay men known as “bears,” officials and activists exuded a clear-eyed calm
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/21/2022 12:22:32 AM (No. 1223102)
You know you really don't have to have sex with every person you meet.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/21/2022 12:30:27 AM (No. 1223108)
We spent a long weekend in Cape Cod 32 years ago, Provincetown was beautiful the people were nasty, mean and made my wife and I very uncomfortable with sly little comments and outright insults. We had our 3 year old son with us, I had no idea it was a pervert community. Disgusting place, disgusting people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/21/2022 1:11:45 AM (No. 1223135)
Close down the homosexual gathering places.....that'll solve it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/21/2022 2:30:51 AM (No. 1223153)
Perhaps the "Bears" shouldn't monkey around. If they do, it's a pox on them. Quarantine the Bears on a Bear Island.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/21/2022 4:28:09 AM (No. 1223169)
I guess we're supposed to call this the "Don't Say Gay" disease.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/21/2022 6:33:00 AM (No. 1223221)
When you improperly use the tools God gave you, this is what you get.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/21/2022 7:29:48 AM (No. 1223255)
Bear Week? Did they carve that out of Pride Month or do the Bears get their own seperate week? My calendar is all confused. Do they have signs up reading, "Do Not Feed the Bears" or is that okay during that week?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 7/21/2022 7:50:39 AM (No. 1223272)
Gods answer to the immoral pox of the ALPHABET people....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
volksford 7/21/2022 8:10:33 AM (No. 1223302)
You would think that after Aids and now Monkeypox these perverts would figure out that their sexual behavior is a problem.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JrSample 7/21/2022 8:12:25 AM (No. 1223304)
Funny how the health ''experts'' had no trouble telling the rest of us we couldn't go to work, insisted on the stay-home-stay-safe nonsense, while they drew their government paychecks along with virtue-signaling mask-wearing celebrities collected monthly royalties from their lousy movies. All because... COVID... scary.
Yet, they would NEVER suggest that their precious delicate homosexuals consider curtailing their promiscuous homo-erotic activities, not even a ''fifteen days to flatten the curve''. So, like HIV/AIDS they have taken an obscure tropical illness and spread it all over the globe, while insisting that everyone else move mountains of federal funds to save them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/21/2022 8:52:25 AM (No. 1223365)
There are downsides to having a Gay Pride month. Monkey pox is one of the downsides.
Barack should stay away from Provincetown this summer. So should his 'wife.'
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 7/21/2022 8:59:39 AM (No. 1223377)
Who needs Provincetown when I have Kentucky Lake / Lake Barkley near the KY/TN border? It's the Houseboat Capital of the U.S.
Too bad so sad Provincetown
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/21/2022 9:51:18 AM (No. 1223447)
And how many animals were tortured (at taxpayer expense via NIH grants) in the guise of medical "research" just to allow homosexuals be able to engage in their unsafe sex practices?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/21/2022 10:19:47 AM (No. 1223482)
The people in charge of the Monkeypox epidemic are like the City Council & Mayor of Amity Island in Jaws.. Ignore the monster maiming and killing the tourists until its too late and then everyone is in danger of getting killed. The doctor in Provincetown sounds the alarm but everyone is jumping through hoops to make sure that they do not call it a gay man disease even though that is how it is mostly transmitted. Ignore the monster, get everyone in trouble to save the gay summer tourist crowd. This is a political disease.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/21/2022 10:34:01 AM (No. 1223496)
It strikes me monkey pox was not much a problem before, as virtually the whole planet was vaccinated against small pox.
What was it, about 40 years ago, they declared the world free of small pox, so no one needed the shot anymore?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/21/2022 11:06:18 AM (No. 1223546)
After reading about this filthy behavior by these insane people, my mind seeks to dissociate, and I drift back in time to poor, unfortunate Marvin in Pulp Fiction. Hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield had just executed three people for stealing a mysterious briefcase, and were driving away from the hit with their associate Marvin in the back seat. Jules was driving. In an animated discussion with Marvin, Vega, breaking all four gun safety rules, gestures with his loaded .45 and accidentally blows Marvin's head clean off, somehow splattering him (Vincent) and Jules in the front seat with brains and gore (and probably internal organs, too), completely covering them from the belt up, front and back. They had to get off the road immediately and call the Wolf to bring them in. Jimmy's house was nearby, so they went there and got his bathroom towels bloody, and they were still covered in gore. Ruined the towels, too. So Jimmy took them outside on the lawn, had them strip, and hosed them down. Then the Wolf came and they disposed of Marvin, the bloody towels, and the car they had been driving in a deep hole in a junkyard. The end.
After reading this story, I'm thinking about calling Jimmy myself. I need hosing down, too.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/21/2022 11:11:56 AM (No. 1223564)
The REAL Disease is "DonkeyPox"!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/21/2022 1:36:32 PM (No. 1223680)
I visited Provincetown in the 60s before it became a gay mecca. It was a beautiful little place with trendy shops and white sand beaches. I'll never visit again. I'd rather remember it the way it was.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/22/2022 10:09:49 PM (No. 1225369)
There is no monkey pox.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/22/2022 10:11:47 PM (No. 1225370)
#1 Not according to TV ie: Seinfeld etal.
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There's a new Gay Plague. The obvious solution would have public health experts urging these people to lay off the random hookups for a few weeks to flatten the curve, which they did not do with coronavirus. But when it's Bear Week in P-Town, the only possibility is vaccines provided at taxpayer expense.