Their reasoning?
Excuses for these hush-hush soirees range from "mental health" to the fact that "none had been in contact with anyone who had suffered Covid-19 - as far as they knew." But the media executive who has attended a few of them said cocktail parties were just as important as oxygen in his circle. "I feel like a camel in the desert in search of water. Washington is a cocktail town and social interaction is our oxygen." Well, if you put it that way.