Granderson: The lessons from Provincetown's outbreak of normalcy (via latimesopinion)
“I’m fully vaxxed. I’m good.”
In a community that had already been decimated once by a deadly virus, many of us in the LGBTQ community took very seriously the protocols from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We had friends and loved ones who survived the AIDS epidemic but were now left at high risk because of a compromised immune system. So we wore masks. We used hand sanitizer. We did not compare life-saving measures to Nazi Germany or whatever else the party of Rep.
There were hugs all around. Dinners in nice restaurants. Making out on the dance floor inside packed clubs with poor air circulation. I heard live music for the first time since February 2020. I went to a gym that wasn’t in my garage. I shook hands with strangers.Several of my friends in Provincetown had breakthrough infections, including one of my housemates. He self-quarantined in his room, fighting off a fever and exhaustion, while we left food and Gatorade at his door.
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