Posted on 06/23/2022 1:43:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lack of clear, concise and consistent messaging about the seriousness of the novel coronavirus in the earliest months of its spread created a false sense of security among Americans that the pandemic would not be serious and resulted in inaction early on across the federal government.
That was the assessment of Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the COVID response coordinator under former President Donald Trump and testified for the first time Thursday before a House panel about her time in the Trump administration.
“It wasn’t just the president, many of our leaders, were using words like ‘we could contain,’ and you cannot contain a virus that cannot be seen,” Birx said. “And it wasn’t being seen because we weren’t testing.”
Birx appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, whose partisan divide was evident throughout the hearing as Democrats focused their attention on missteps made during the Trump administration while Republicans did the same when it came to Democratic-led states such as New York or under the Biden administration, such as when President Joe Biden overstated the efficacy of vaccines by telling Americans in a CNN town hall, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
Much of the hearing focused on concerns Birx had about strategies promoted by Dr. Scott Atlas, who joined the White House as a pandemic adviser in the summer of 2020 and argued that it was all right for low-risk people to get infected with the virus as long as the vulnerable are protected. Birx was asked why she considered that view so dangerous.
“Dr. Atlas’s view was anybody who was not going to have severe disease should be allowed to become infected,” Birx said.
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Birx is an incompetent, ass covering, back-stabbing bureaucratic snake.
I have seen her type before.
Because they are all around us.
Birx needs to go Epstein herself with one of her fancy scarves.
The survival rate has not changed since the beginning...
What a deep state B !!!!
Fire this ####!
IF Scarf was smart, it would disappear from the face of the planet never to be heard from again.
So this jackass Birx would rather destroy everyone's livelihood, the economy, damage the mental health of Americans by isolating them, and prolonging this crap by making people get the infection in dribs and drabs.
Inoculation, mask wearing, social distancing, and quarantining did not prevent people from getting the virus. Inoculation, mask wearing, social distancing, and quarantining did not prevent people from spreading the virus.
These people are never going to be called to account for what they have done.
Yep, there were those of us who accepted this as a new flu, with a virus that would mutate, and those who to this day think that masking, quarantining, and chanting Anthony Fauci’s name three times will save them.
Yet according to Fauci Trump acquiesced on all major decisions...soooo theres that.
You have that right.
I wish all the people who still see COVID as an existential threat that requires government mandates go make a quilt of the “victims” and STFU.
“Dr. Atlas’s view was anybody who was not going to have severe disease should be allowed to become infected,” Birx said.’
which is exactly the way it should have been handled, you g——m stupid b-—h...
because of ditzes like this broad, medical facilities will forever require absolutely useless masking, not because they are afraid of catching a disease from the unmasked rabble, which they know they will not, but because their compliance boners require it...
Which is pretty much what happened by nature. These people think they can control nature, they can't.
Completely right.
Exactly the advice I received from my doctor.
Never trust the testimony of a Doctor.
They have mastered one area of study and think that they are masters of all undertakings.*
* Try to teach a doctor how to fly. Not an easy task.
Atlas made a valiant effort, though he eventually retreated on the fight.
He wasn't wrong. Joe Biden won't admit it but eventually this administration came to realize Dr. Atlas' view.
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