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Monday, August 30, 2021

Covid: CDC and Media Omit Context In News About Breakthrough Cases

During July 2021, in the small resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, tens of thousands of GLBT visitors flooded in for an annual festival. Attending parties, going to bars and engaging in very personal activities “not mask friendly”, several hundred adults who were vaccinated wound up coming down with Covid. 

Though this is important information, how this was publicized was as ‘hinky’ as anything that went on during the festival. Proper context was not given. No mention was made in the mainstream media about the festival or even the town’s name. We were allowed to assume that the breakthrough cases were somehow totally typical and indicative of some heretofore unexpected weakness in the Covid vaccines, instead of a flagrant level of disregard for the danger from too close personal activities of a very large number of adults that resulted in inhaling very large viral loads of the very highly contagious Delta variant. 


One of the few articles I found that specified the town’s name and the name of the festival is:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/scicheck-posts-misinterpret-cdcs-provincetown-covid-19-outbreak-report/


An article that provides real answers about breakthrough infections (from Consumer Reports):

https://www.consumerreports.org/covid-19/questions-about-covid-19-breakthrough-infections-answered-a8995775819/