By August 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx made it known that she had hit her limit.
The Trump administration’s COVID-19 response coordinator, Birx had been asked to attend a COVID-19 roundtable event with some of the country’s leading advocates of the so-called “herd immunity” approach — figures that included neuroradiologist Scott Atlas, and Great Barrington Declaration authors Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff.
Nice to have confirmed what was already well known at the time.
800,000 deaths later and Birx let it happen on her watch, when she sat there, dumbfounded, during his many televised and recorded statements about this and never once, NOT ONCE, stepped up and said ‘enough’.
When is someone going to ask her why she kept silent for this long over what was a travesty wrapped in chaos and she did nothing, publicly, to stop it?
She is as guilty of these deaths as the rest of them.
“Best if this proceeds without my presence,” Birx wrote in an Aug. 25 email, to 16 senior Trump White House officials. “I can’t be part of this with these people who believe in herd immunity,” she added in a lengthy follow-up message to Marc Short, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff.
Birx is following the tree falling in the forest approach to problem management.
This should’ve been shouted from the roof tops on every available media outlet. Her life was probably going to be threatened or her career discredited, much as Fauci’s has been.
But she’s still responsible, regardless of her feeble attempt to do otherwise.
Military mindset.
The C-in-C said “shit” and her knickers were down before she could even say, “Where and how high?”
She could have resigned and then told the medical truth. But she didn’t.
Enjoy your fat pension, “Doctor” Birx.
Copenhagen escaped the ravages of the 1918 Spanish Flu (H1N1) Pandemic through exposure of the city’s population to the first wave. Trump’s people thought a “Copenhagen” approach would work, but minor issue, SARS-Cov-2 was not a flu virus. The real Copenhagen this time around locked down, vaccinated, masked, ventilated and distanced. The result is a population that now sees soaring cases, but very little hospitalization. China continues its absolute suppression strategy, but eventually it is unlikely to hold. Again, a decade from now we’ll be looking back at Denmark and other Nordic countries to study their responses. At 553 deaths per million for Denmark and 2,510 per million for the US, we’re talking about much better pandemic performance and public health guidance. Trump always had to give us the Bizarro World policy solution.
This info is from the Congressional hearing. She has been careful not to appear in the kind of media interview where she would be asked any of the hard questions. I doubt we’ll ever get this kind of answer from her.
Now, the CDC no longer recommended tests for the asymptomatic but exposed.
That was really the entirety of the “pandemic response.”
Lest we forget, the moron groused about testing causing so many cases. Clearly, the plan was herd immunity plus denial and probably mockery of all the libs getting upset about death like a bunch of snowflakes. Do that for a couple of years, shove people into mobile coroner units, and declare victory.
Because that’s the only way you retain some ability to affect the fucking outcome.
Seems like a lifetime ago, but helpful reminder that there had just been a very public rebuke of any public servants who went public with exposing crimes of the administration-- Anyone remember Vindman or Yovanovitch and how they were unceremoniously shit on and the Senate cleared trump?
But sure, let’s blame folks like Fauci and Birx for not doing enough in public, when the only predictable outcome would have been that they would be dumped entirely to the curb (helpful reminder that Fauci had been cut off from the public and interviews when trump got pissed off at him just a couple months prior).
And then the only people left running things would have been Jared’s Friends, who would happily have stopped all testing and done whatever they possibly could to disrupt everything in order to improve the chances of re-election.
This shitting on public servants for not going public and losing their ability to continue to be part of the process, despite all the years of evidence that the only outcome would be them being punished and (worse) cut off from the decision-making process, gets tiring.
I’d kinda like to see her lose her medical license and her reputation in the field be destroyed. The first law of medicine is ‘first, do no harm’. What in hell was she thinking here? And how does she view that reticence with 800,000 dead Americans and Lord knows how many millions around the world, because she wouldn’t step up and do the right thing?
@castor_troy, then what point are public servants if they don’t serve the public? Are we going to allow these people to take the same excuses as were taken at Nuremburg? I think we should’ve learned something from Germany and, if we didn’t, then what the hell is the point?
