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Inside the Failure: 5 Takeaways on Trumps Effort to Shift Responsibility
President Trump and his top aides sharply shifted their pandemic strategy in mid-April after seizing on optimistic data suggesting the virus would disappear, a Times investigation found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-failure-takeaways.html?
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Dr. Birx was more central than publicly known to the judgment inside the West Wing that the virus was under control and on a downward path.
But her model-based assessment of the outlook failed to account for a vital variable: how Mr. Trumps rush to urge a return to normal would undercut the social distancing and other measures that were holding down the numbers.
During the morning meetings in Mr. Meadowss office, Dr. Birx almost always delivered what the new team was hoping for: All metros are stabilizing, she would tell them, describing the virus as having hit its peak around mid-April. The New York area accounted for half of the total cases in the country, she said. The slope was heading in the right direction. Were behind the worst of it.
During much of mid-April, Dr. Birx focused intensely on the experience that Italy had fighting the virus. In her view, it was a particularly positive comparison, telling colleagues that the United States was on the same trajectory as Italy, where there were huge spikes before infections and deaths flattened to close to zero.
Dr. Birx would roam the halls of the White House, sometimes passing out diagrams to bolster her case. Weve hit our peak, she would say, and that message would find its way back to Mr. Trump.
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malaise
(268,885 posts)May she meet her Isadora moment
leftieNanner
(15,080 posts)I like it.
back at ya.
malaise
(268,885 posts);hi:
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)malaise
(268,885 posts)That's her obsession
sheshe2
(83,721 posts)malaise
(268,885 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)Isadora Birx.
All enablers and propaganda generators, she covers both bases.
woodsprite
(11,910 posts)and her looking all flustered when he was spouting the 'disinfectant' stuff was her just trying to figure out how she was going to spin it.
malaise
(268,885 posts)at that disinfectant moment and walked off the platform.
2naSalit
(86,512 posts)It was at that point that she showed who she is. When it became noticeable was when Dr. Fauci quickly showed little alliance to her. I had never heard of her before this. She obviously drinks the kool-aid.
malaise
(268,885 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Was she looking only at Washington and New York? I don't understand how she could proclaim we'd hit our peak when the virus was unfolding at different rates over an enormous country.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)I was thinking TOO FEW TOO LATE.
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)in this thread that there is some serious spin going on and that she is being offered up as the latest scapegoat for Trump's poor choices
Link to tweet
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(More at Saletan's twitter)
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Hugin
(33,112 posts)However, she was saying what they WANTED to hear.
Then again, maybe she's being thrown under the blame bus since that's what Herr Trumpenburg tends to do over there.
I guess it'll all be straightened out in the hearings and trials to follow.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I have yet to see evidence of that.
maxrandb
(15,316 posts)That appears to be her step in her descent into hell.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)of Clinton and G.W. Bush, so tRump had them removed?
dajoki
(10,678 posts)PatSeg
(47,370 posts)was she was much too perky and upbeat for someone advising on a pandemic. I felt like she was enjoying all the media attention and it was hard to take her seriously.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)Looking back, she was enjoying this catastrophic situation more than a normal person would have.
Peregrine Took
(7,412 posts)something about the way she preened when in front of the camera.
Trying so hard to shine in front of "daddy."
mnmoderatedem
(3,724 posts)Fauci seems to be a realist trying his best to present the case to the American public without angering Hair Furor where Birx is emerging as trump's yes woman.
I'll bet the conversations between Fauci and Birx were very interesting.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)benefit of the doubt as she was a doctor. But after seeing her constantly prefacing her statements with "thank you mr president, thank you me vp", I saw she was a "yes person" and science/facts were taking the secondary track.
I just want American public to be provided truthful data on this virus and not from pence or trump as they are scientists.
Dr Fauci should be allowed to pick a panel of doctors and scientists who can provide a daily briefing to the American public on the state of the virus outbreak and what's being done to mitigate it.