With Dr. Anthony Fauci now under renewed fire after pleading the Fifth during a U.S. Senate hearing this week, I would argue that more attention should be directed to Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House COVID coordinator and essentially Fauci’s partner in thrusting their experimental pandemic policies on the American public.
As a reminder, I reviewed a documentary that offered chilling details on Birx and her direct role in creating the lockdown disaster that still impacts this country to this day.
…Birx continued to issue lockdown policies using White House stationery and scuttling Trump’s attempts to reopen the country.The kicker: Pence allowed Birx to use Air Force Two to fly around the country and undermine the efforts of Atlas and the other serious and well-qualified scientists who disagreed with the Birx model.Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the documentary was the audio of Birx herself bragging about how she subverted Trump and his advisors.Well, with a little help from Pence: “I made it very clear to the Vice President, and I said, “You know I’m saying exactly the opposite of what the president is saying, and what Scott Atlas is saying. And the Vice President said, “You do what you need to do.
Now, during her appearance on CBS News‘ “Takeout” With Major Garrett, Birx is desperately trying to distance herself from the mitigation monstrosity she created. Her position should have… evolved.
“I think all of us need to be quite honest with ourselves about how not only the information evolved, but the needs for the relevant, what we call, countermeasures, should have also evolved,” Birx responded.”What do I mean by that? When this first hit, we didn’t have enough testing out there. We couldn’t stop the spread in any way. Hospitals were being overrun. We didn’t have a supply chain that matched the need.”And so the first part in the few months were a crisis,” she said. “But once we got additional therapies, monoclonal antibodies, long-acting monoclonal antibodies, Remdezivir, where there were actually additional treatments, then you can pull back on some of the mitigation.”
Birx tossed both Fauci and Blue States under the bus. She asserts the response became “political” and that Democrat-led states “over-closed.”
There were solutions, but it became very political, and we all have to be aware because it was a presidential election year, it was really important for blue states to show that they were taking this very seriously. And they over-closed. And we just have to be honest that that happened. And that’s why that discussion from both sides of the aisle and a resolution and a way to go forward is critical so that we can do this right in the future.
I will simply note that Birx did not receive one of those handy Biden Autopen pardons, and as David Strom of Hot Air notes, she is every bit as culpable as Fauci.
Birx is Dr. Fauci’s accomplice, and while far less evil than Fauci, because there is little indication that she actually conspired to create the COVID virus that wiped out tens of millions of people, she participated in the subsequent destruction that destroyed lives and split this country apart. She lied repeatedly, causing enormous damage, and decided that she and Fauci could run a shadow government and do an end run around the political leadership elected by the American people.And then she bragged about it in her autobiography, confident that Pravda would applaud her….Birx herself has bragged about her efforts to subvert the president’s policies in her autobiography, and has admitted that she lied to policy makers and the American public to get them to comply with public health measures she knew were unwarranted. She was scared to death that President Trump would act on his own knowledge that she had manipulated him.
Fauci and Birx are the Bobbsey Twins of the COVID pandemic disaster. Fauci’s actions supported the conditions that led to the generation of the virus and its spread, while Birx undermined Trump’s efforts to reopen the country once it was clear that COVID wasn’t as deadly as advertised.
A credible, evidence-based review of COVID pandemic policy decisions is warranted for all officials involved, regardless of position or political affiliation, particularly where significant public health and economic impacts occurred. But Birx should be the next one put into the hot seat, with the temperature on “High”.
If investigations find that any individuals knowingly misrepresented data, exceeded their authority, or misled policymakers or the public, those actions should be addressed to the fullest extent possible based on the law.
Accountability, applied fairly and grounded in verifiable facts, is essential to maintaining public trust and improving future public health responses.
Sadly, COVID was fatal in some cases. But what it really killed was public trust in science, our public health system, and “experts”. Unless accountability includes more than an intense grilling in Congress, with a side of angry tweets and memes, that trust will remain dead.
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