Fauci Gives “OK” to Tinder in Coronavirus Crisis - “If You’re Willing to Take Risk”
Thursday, April 16, 2020
United States coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has endorsed Tinder hookups — while much of the country remains on relative lockdown — as long as people are willing to “accept the risk.”
79-year old Fauci made the comments this week on Snapchat “Good Luck America” segment.
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GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTToward the end of the taped segment, Fauci was asked: “If you’re swiping on a dating app like Tinder, or Bumble or Grindr, and you match with someone that you think is hot, and you’re just kind of like, ‘Maybe it’s fine if this one stranger comes over.’ What do you say to that person?”
“You know, that’s tough,” replied the befuddled National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director to the curveball. “Because that’s what’s called relative risk.”
Then he dropped the bombshell. “If you’re willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if you want to meet somebody,” said Fauci, who was named a candidate for People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” award.
He added, “If you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then that’s your choice regarding a risk.”
But don’t invite every one of your Tinder matches over for a Caligula-esque orgy just yet. The unlikely date doctor subsequently pointed out that “the one thing you don’t want to do” is base your decision on whether “the person is feeling well."
If people only transmitted when they felt sick, “that would be much easier,” he said. “But what we’re seeing, which becomes really problematic, is that there’s a considerable amount of transmission from an asymptomatic person.”
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