On May 16, 2021 the CDC relaxed mask mandates for fully vaccinated individuals, saying they “can safely choose not to wear a mask.” Contrary to a few days before! [2]
“If you are vaccinated, we are saying you are safe, you can take off your mask, and you are not at risk of severe disease or hospitalization from COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, you are not safe” said CDC’s Director Walensky.
Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said that vaccinated people become a “dead end to the virus”. [3]
The “fully vaccinated people can go without masks even if they have an asymptomatic case of COVID-19 because the level of virus is much lower in their nasopharynx…than it is in someone who is unvaccinated.” [1]
“So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they’re going to transmit it,” Fauci said.
The vaccinated people essentially become “dead ends” for the virus to spread within their communities. [This was soon proven untrue].
“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community,” Fauci said. “In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”