TPM "Biden Team Conflicted Over Whether To Keep Birx On COVID-19 Response Panel"

[NRaleighLiberal]

(I am a strong HELL NO on this!)


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-team-conflicted-over-whether-to-keep-birx-on-covid-19-response-panel

By Cristina Cabrera
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November 19, 2020 7:41 a.m.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is reportedly unsure whether or not to retain Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the Trump administration’s prominent COVID-19 experts, on their own pandemic advisory board.


Per Politico, some transition officials are concerned about Birx’s role in President Donald Trump’s poor handling of the pandemic. The doctor has been criticized for standing by the President even as he’s peddled lie after lie about the virus, including the blatantly false claim that injecting oneself with disinfectant is a cure for COVID-19.

For her part, Birx has clashed with Trump on the seriousness of the virus, prompting the President to attack her as “pathetic.”

A Biden transition official told Politico that the President-elect’s team plans to do some “house cleaning” with regards to the COVID-19 advisers Trump had appointed.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has publicly contradicted the President’s artificially optimistic spin on the pandemic, is reportedly the only one whom Biden will keep for sure.

[soothsayer]

1. That's a hard "no"

[Baitball Blogger]

2. When it comes to Birx, just say no.

Someone on the Trump's medical team should take some responsibility for the crap show we saw when the medical team pushed Trump's political agenda.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. No Trump sycophants

[hlthe2b]

4. Even before COVID, she had along history of self-serving, sabotaging behavior toward CDC

She needs to go. Permanently.

[SheltieLover]

5. Get REAL doctors

With spines!

[RAB910]

6. There are plenty of quality experts, no need to fish in the polluted Trump pond

[Johnny2X2X]

7. HArd no

She had her chance to do the right thing and she didn't have the fortitude to do it. There are other equally qualified people for her job.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. I'm a NOPE.

[MoonRiver]

9. NO! nuff said

[llashram]

10. there are many QUALIFIED

individuals NOT ASSOCIATED with the trump administration to be conflicted over whether to keep this coward in a Biden/Harris administration. To hell with trying to placate republicans and just get someone in to start really fighting this pandemic. TO HELL WITH BRIX!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NCDem47]

11. People make choices in their careers.

and frankly, that leads them to be marginalized, demoted or let go because of those choices. I've seen it happen for political reasons. It's the way of the world.

She may have been under immense political pressure, but she's tainted goods. Her integrity did not hold up. She should not be carried over.

[2naSalit]

12. She drank the kool-aid, she can't be allowed to remain

as a taxpayer funded entity.

[CentralMass]

13. Smell you later Birxy.

[Celerity]

14. hell no!!! she was in the tank for Rump for ages

This bi-partisan oriented, make-nice shit is really starting to piss me off

Rethugs want to KILL us (politically and physically), LITERALLY, from 10,000 different angles.

I see worrying signs, like not going after Rump being hinted at (and no, I do not think it is just Biden playing no role, and keeping hands off, I think he might actively, behind closed doors, steer the DOJ to back off), plus all these Rethug vermin being floated about as options to join the high power positions in the administration.

Fuck making nice, all it will earn us is a fucking REAL (not in the Trumpian ginned up nazi trope Dolchstoßlegende sense) stab in the back.