– You didn’t live until you talked about twinks with the CDC. / Queerty

“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 epidemiological experts. from the CDC and explain the intricacies of Circuit Week versus Bear Week and how many hundreds of people they can sneak into these spaces with terrible music. I told my friends you haven’t lived so much that you haven’t talked about twinks with the CDC.

I heard at one of those first meetings that the contact tracers reported and they said, “These are the most cooperative people we’ve ever worked with – we have people who give us their full itineraries and the names and phone numbers of everyone in their home.– Michael Donnelly, a New York-based tech data specialist turned amateur COVID-19 observer, whose observations of his own community’s COVID experiences in Provincetown, MA have been integral to the CDC who detected the trend early enough to take meaningful measures.