Basically, what they're saying is people who are fully vaccinated, so two weeks after the
second dose of the two dose schedules,
or two weeks after the the first dose of the one dose schedule,
that people are protected and they can be together
with other vaccinated adults, so everybody that are gathering together
should be vaccinated and then they can be inside, they can have dinner,
they can be without their masks, they don't need to social distance.
They feel that the vaccine is so safe that the chances of transmission between fully vaccinated adults
and then having symptomatic disease is extraordinarily rare.
Another thing that's really important is they say that vaccinated adults, fully vaccinated adults
can also see younger people as long as the younger people who aren't vaccinated,
as long as they're not at high risk for severe disease. So they're young, they're healthy, they don't have comorbidities,
they don't have underlying diseases that make them at risk for more severe disease,
so they can get together with another household. For example,
their children and grandchildren from another household, and they can hug their grandkids.
They feel that there is a slight risk that the vaccinated person could transmit to those who are unvaccinated
and that they could get infected, but there's very little risk of the vaccinated adult,
of them having transmission to them and then getting sick.
One thing that they're not recommending is, for example,
let's say a grandparent has two children with two separate households with kids,
they're not recommending that all of them get together at once
because, of course, those two households, if they get together and they're not masking,
then there's risk of transmission between them.
So they're recommending that the vaccinated individuals just get together
with one household at a time and of course when you're getting together
with other adults, they are recommending in small gatherings, so like
five or ten people, not large gatherings where the exposure might be more
and again we want to try this. We think it's going to work.
We think it's going to be safe, but we want to try it for a while
and then we'll gradually open up more and more.
The CDC continues to say that everybody should
mask and social distance when feasible when in public and so anything like a
restaurant or a theme park, that's the same thing.
Masked people should be masking whether they're vaccinated or unvaccinated
when they're out in public, and of course, when you're out in public,
you can't tell who's been vaccinated or not, so it's really not feasible for places,
for businesses to then enforce masking rules
if they don't know who's been vaccinated or not.
So it's just not feasible to do that yet.