That’s not what he said at all. What he said was that the primary goal was preventing severe illness and death. The secondary goal was preventing transmission and contracting the disease. Those were the metrics upon which the vaccine candidates were to be judged.
Prior to the Delta variant, Israel found that the Pfizer vaccine was blocking 94% of asymptomatic infections and 97% of symptomatic infections (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/pfizer-covid-vaccine-blocks-94percent-of-asymptomatic-infections-and-97percent-of-symptomatic-cases-in-israeli-study.html)
Fauci is an idiot and a media hound who says a lot of stupid things. There’s no need to pretend he said something different here than what he did. There’s plenty of real examples of him saying stupid things that don’t make any sense just to keep the cameras focused on him.
The secondary goal was preventing transmission and contracting the disease
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That failed spectacularly
If Fauci knew thes ‘vaccines’ wouldn’t stop the spread of the virus, then he failed to consider that would facilitate the rise of variants thru evolutionary pressure.
If this was known, you would never institute a mass vaccination campaign because it increases the probability of mutation.