Good news if you've been vaccinated. Of course, he doesn't explain why it's unsafe to go into society the same way. I assume that's because vaccines aren't 100% effective.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said in a press conference Monday that if you — and all your guests — are vaccinated, a dinner gathering should be relatively safe.
“Small gatherings in the home, I think you can clearly feel the relative risk is so low you wouldn’t have to wear the mask,” Fauci said. “You could have a good social gathering in the home.”
But Fauci went on to clarify that a small get-together in one’s home is quite different from attending a large social gathering.
“The setting in a home of a small group of people having dinner together, all of whom are vaccinated, is very different when you step out the door and go into a society that has 70,000 new cases a day,” he said.
https://fox8.com/news/fauci-answers-can-you-have-a-dinner-party-if-youre-vaccinated/
The Israelis have released a few studies on the vaccine and have found that the vaccine decrease morbidity by 95.8%. Just to give you an idea of what this means, the aggregate infection fatality rate in high-income countries for the entire population is 1.15%. By lowering this by 95.8%, the new IFR is 0.048%.
They also have found you are 98.9% less likely to have to be hospitalized if vaccinated, and ~95% less likely to spread it if you are vaccinated, albeit that last stat is hard to determine.
So, at this point, all of this continued fear mongering in the USA from Fauci (and others) I am writing off as some kind of continued power grab and to convince us for the need of that $1.9T "relief" package. That or Fauci has gotten too use to his new fame and realizes as soon as this is over, he'll be forgotten like a bad joke.
That is the only thing that makes sense right now. There is no reason to continue this after being vaccinated, and no reason to continue this after the majority of those over 65 are.
