Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Boston: wisdom teeth, restaurants, versus)

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by bostongymjunkie

You can apply that logic to every bar and club in every city in the state, along with a plethora of phone apps.

Well I haven't heard of Boston having an uptick the way P-town (a relatively small coastal area) is.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/provinceto...ry?id=79052632

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

I think the implication is not sex itself (as in, exchange of fluids), but the circumstances surrounding sexual encounters (unmasked, very close physical contact, extended exposure time). No one is inferring a new transmission mechanism!

Right. This is why my fiancée and I still wear masks when we are intimate even though we are fully vaccinated. The Superman cape, however, is just for fun.

[Amontillado]

Correct, there is nothing unique happening in Provincetown. So either the disease is being spread by the activity that takes place there, or there genuinely is something unusual that lets it spread among vaccinated people, there but nowhere else. I'm sure the experts are looking at the situation.

Maybe Provincetown is a precursor, and other hotspots will be discovered. It's all new stuff, so there's a lot to learn. For those old enough to remember, think of how knowledge about AIDS gradually built up over a few years.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by lrfox

Right. This is why my fiancée and I still wear masks when we are intimate even though we are fully vaccinated. The Superman cape, however, is just for fun.

For the sake of you two enjoying your intimacy...I hope your tongue was firmly-in-cheek in stating the above!

[NewfieMama]

Originally Posted by lrfox

Right. This is why my fiancée and I still wear masks when we are intimate even though we are fully vaccinated. The Superman cape, however, is just for fun.

Omg, I am DYING at this! For the record, I had COVID (not delta variant), but did not know I had it. My husband never contracted it despite...the obvious. Once I got my positive, I isolated and we slept in separate beds. But until then, when I was apparently at my most contagious, we were the opposite of isolating. He tested every other day until 5 days after my isolation ended and none of them were positive. I realize this is not the usual situation, but it may be that some people are just more prone to contracting it than others.

[jayrandom]

Obviously the conclusion about Provincetown is clear: tall monuments to Pilgrims counteract the protective effects of the vaccine. As long as Plymouth remains safe we can surmise it is the height of the monument that is the main problem, but we should monitor the situation around Plymouth Rock closely, just in case.

[Amontillado]

To be a good scientist, one must keep an open mind. Yes, maybe we are menaced by monuments. Is Bunker Hill going to be another center of infection?

[BostonMike7]

One of my wife's coworkers is, shall we say, promiscuous. Anyway since March '20, they have managed to sleep with no less than 3 people who called her up less than 48 hours later telling her they tested positive for covid forcing her to isolate and test. She never once caught it.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by bostongymjunkie

You can apply that logic to every bar and club in every city in the state, dozens of beaches, and a plethora of phone apps.

Edit: What PTown does have is a lot of older people (median age 52) and I would also guess there might be a higher concentration of people with compromised immune systems.

And one can add that there haven't been breakouts in other places like Fire Island, Rehoboth Beach, or Ogunquit.

[msRB311]

So what is going on in P-town then? seems kind of odd.