Speaking to the Washington Post earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci provided some guidance on whether families should consider gathering for the upcoming holidays of Christmas and New Year’s. The gist of Fauci’s remarks is somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, Fauci says that if your family is all fully vaccinated, then, by all means, get together and enjoy the holiday. Then, in the next breath, Fauci says that he will be skipping a gathering with his daughter this year out of precaution.
The one gem of advice that stands out, however, is Fauci’s recommendation that holiday hosts should “require” proof of vaccination just to walk in the door:
“One thing that vaccinated people can feel comfortable with, for example — let’s take the holiday setting, you’re with your family, you have grandparents and parents and children, when you get vaccinated and you have a vaccinated group and you are in an indoor setting, you can enjoy, as we have traditionally over the years, dinners and gatherings within the home with people who are vaccinated,” Fauci said Wednesday during a live interview.
“That’s the reason why people should, if they invite people over their home, essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated,” Fauci continued.
The Biden administration doesn’t seem to be able to impose a vaccine mandate on any level by executive order. However, Fauci recommends imposing your own holiday vaccine mandate before relatives and guests can step foot on your property.
Beyond that, however, why won’t Fauci be joining his daughter for Christmas this year? He’s vaccinated, so he tells us, presumably his family is, so why the hesitation when he’s telling other families to go ahead and gather? Perhaps Fauci’s family doesn’t take his advice and he doesn’t want to mingle with his unvaccinated relatives. That would be the ultimate irony, of course, if Fauci’s in-laws think he’s over the top with his hyper risk-averse advice that often contradicts itself.
“For the first time in more than 30 years, I’m not spending the Christmas holidays with my daughters,” Fauci said during the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit, adding that he didn’t attend Thanksgiving with his family either.
That doesn’t make logical sense. Either your large family gathering of vaccinated people is “safe” by Fauci standards, or it’s not. It’s possible that Fauci would prefer to tell Americans not to gather at all, but that advice is so ridiculous and bound to be ignored that no one will be listening. Instead, he’ll give his blessing, but then insist that he himself won’t be partaking and will be denying his own family get-together.
The biggest question to ask is when did Fauci become such a vaccine-skeptic? This is why he’s a terrible spokesman for anything Covid-related nowadays. He wants everyone to be vaccinated, then discounts the protection offered by the vaccine by informing everyone that while he supports gatherings, he’s not gathering with family himself.
Why would he even add that part in about not seeing his daughter? It’s a backhanded way to both approve of large gatherings, but then also hedge his bets by insisting that he won’t be partaking in that reckless behavior himself.
Whatever the case is with Fauci, Americans are generally done with heavy-handed contradictory advice from public health bureaucrats. For some reason, they still keep lecturing us though.
