Birx frustrated by 'parroting back' of virus misinformation

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx said Sunday she's frustrated with the persistence of false claims about the spread of the virus.

In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Birx said she's heard members of local communities "parroting back" misinformation about the effectiveness of masks and called for stronger mitigation efforts.

"When I go out, I just don't meet with healthcare providers and governors and mayors, but I also meet with the community," Birx said. "And so I hear community members parroting back those situations, parroting back that masks don't work, parroting back that we should work toward herd immunity, parroting back that gatherings don't result in super-spreading events. And I think our job is to constantly say those are myths."

"And right now, across the Sun Belt, we have governors and mayors who have cases equivalent to what they had in the summertime, yet aren't putting in the same policies and mitigations that they put in the summer, that they know changed the course of this pandemic across the South," she added. "So it is frustrating because not only do we know what works, governors and mayors used those tools to stem the tide in the spring and the summer."

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/06/birx-frustrated-coronavirus-misinformation-443257

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[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. You stood by and enabled it.

You had ample opportunity to call out your evil boss while he himself spread those lies.

[Mr.Bill]

11. She sat there silent

while Trump recommended injecting bleach.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Exactly

ENABLED IT AND PERPETUATED IT....She stood on stage, FOR MONTHS and said not one F***ing thing. She worried more about showing off her scarf collection than the people of the entire nation.

ESPECIALLY the night Lardass was talking about shoving light wands up people's Butts and injecting them with lysol....she just sat there........Any other doctor or scientist would have stood up, said: YOU ARE CRAZY... and walked off the stage the minute that came out of his asshole shaped mouth.

Suddenly, there are a lot of people, RepubliCONs and a even a few dems who are playing the "I DIDN'T KNOW" game bullshit.
They are in hopes we all have extremely poor memories and they will get away with it by claiming innocence, ignorance, and pretending they did not have an ACTIVE roll in enabling Jabba the Frump.......

[VA_Jill]

2. The Scarf Lady

is angling to keep her job with the incoming administration. I don't think she gets to.

[catbyte]

3. Her credibility is shot. For what? To placate a petty, two-bit dicator wannabe?

It really is a shame that cowardice can undo a lifetime of good work in a moment.

[iluvtennis]

15. + 1. nt

[ret5hd]

4. If a president says to inject bleach, when do you say "NO! DON'T DO THAT!"

Immediately after he says it?

Or do you nod your head and look away, maybe to say something later...quietly, or maybe not at all?

[hatrack]

5. Let's see . . . searching the couch cushions for some Giveashit (TM) . . . and . . .

Nope. Nothing.

[Yeehah]

6. Enjoy your future at the free VD clinic, doc.

That's about all ya' got left.

[irisblue]

7. Sod Off Dr Scarf

[Mike Nelson]

8. Yikes!

... why doesn't she NAME THE PERSON most responsible for allowing misinformation to be spread?

[TeamPooka]

9. she is part of the problem, not the solution. she's gotta go post Jan 20th

[barbtries]

10. i think i'm starting to get it.

i thought either she has a lifestyle she can barely afford, or she's all in the cult of trump. now i see she's a transparent opportunist and now she's trying to ingratiate herself with President Biden.

fuck her. let her go broke, she deserves it.

[rickford66]

12. She's only allowed in Red States I guess.

[The Genealogist]

13. Maybe if you hadn't coddled adult toddler Donald Trump...

you wouldn't have so much BS to have to listen to, Doctor.

She has been in a position of authority, and failed to use that authority to do what is right. So, overworked medical workers have had to take up the slack. They are in the trenches, watching people deny COVID even exists, even as they die.

With all due respect Dr Brix...shove it.

[uppityperson]

14. Maybe though should have spoken up sooner

[Cozmo]

16. So, quit!

[niyad]

17. Nobody sane cares what you think or say, deb. You sold your soul for nothing.

[DallasNE]

18. That's A Start

But she still won't lay this at the feet of Trump, where it belongs. It is the Trump misinformation that these people are parroting. She still needs to take it to the source and that means calling out Trump by name.

[Polly Hennessey]

19. Go away Birx. You are

a worthless enabler .Oh, and take your scarves with you.

[dchill]

20. ...and NOW she's frustrated.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. She should have worked out Trump would parrot back misinformation long ago (nt)

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Republican lady discovers medicine - and likes it!

Why were you invisible and compliant in April?

[Demsrule86]

24. She enabled Trump and his lies.

[SayItLoud]

25. Bobble Head. NT.

[bringthePaine]

26. another covidiot attempting rehab of her terminally trashed rep

[JI7]

27. She is trying to get a job in Biden admin

[Blues Heron]

29. She will be judged harshly by history and she knows it.

Her only hope was to have resigned early on during the bleach/UV therapy debacle. Too late for that now.