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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hope Dr. Birx's reputation never recovers after this clusterfuck.
Link to tweet
I was sent this by a FB follower who has worked at the CDC for 6 years. Media can you follow up?
Birx is forcing the epi task force and communications group to modify language, skew frames, and straight up lie in public statements. Eg, She forced them to change...
the recent MMWR about the camp outbreak to blame the camp even though they actually did almost everything right and still experienced the outbreak.
Sharing with permission. Apparently this is a pattern.
malaise
(269,157 posts)<snip>
Hes been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data, Birx said. I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.
She knew that was bullshit
bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)she appears to have had a strong hand in not only implementing the terrible, terrible policy goals of the administration, she seems to have helped craft them
hlthe2b
(102,352 posts)Colleagues who worked with her at CDC when she headed up Global AIDs program for CDC do not disguise their disdain and apparently (in unison) remark on how Deborah Birx was only out for Deborah Birx. Nothing has changed, apparently.
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Not everyone is strong. I feel sorry for her.
People like Senator Cornyn run as leaders, as strong people. I blame them for being weak. Not this doctor.
I used cleverness And tricks learned from classmates to legally delay my induction in the Vietnam Nam war, forcing some less privileged person to serve. I was a coward. So I am in no position to blame her.
Solomon
(12,319 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)She does. And she went right along with it. Shes beyond weak
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)catbyte
(34,445 posts)I can't "give her a break."
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)everything he touches turn to shit
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)She appears fearful, subservient, passive, and old beyond her years. Im not surprised by any of this.
oasis
(49,406 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)magicarpet
(14,167 posts),..... kind words to blindly defend and fully support her Messiah. Even if her Messiah was glaringly dead wrong,.. her Messiah should and must be forgiven and mistakes forgotten at all costs.
Then the world can continue to worship the new Messiah, and the important mission of the Messiah will not be interrupted or impeded, and he can do his good work preaching to his disciples.
FUCK that shit,.. FUCK Dr. Birx.
She misleads, she fabricates, she glosses over trDumpie's fuck ups....
That is the last thing we need during a pandemic that is astoundingly out of control and killing our citizens needlessly due to outrageous ineptitude and gross incompetence.
Dr. Birx is not the leader we so desperately need at this time to guide us through this rapidly downward spiraling morass. She is a yes person, a happy talk person, with blind loyalties primarily and exclusively focused to advance the agendas of Donald John trDump.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)She breached the Hippocratic oath in 100 ways to Sunday.