Trumps aid claims Covid came out of the box ready to infect-claiming virus was being worked on by scientists in a Chinese Lab.
In a remarkable book review, Jeffrey Tucker
identifies Dr. Birx as the chief architect of the “lockdown” strategy that
caused so much economic damage and personal misery in America in the last two
years.
Dr. Birx credits
herself as the person who convinced President Trump to adopt the “15 days to
slow the spread” policy — which she admits was a ruse to buy time to
make lockdowns more permanent.
Dr. Birx also admits
to “hiding” data in the weekly reports to state health officials in order to
encourage her “lockdowns and masking and mass testing” regime. After the
heavily edited documents were returned to me, I’d reinsert what they had
objected to, but place it in those different locations. I’d also reorder and
restructure the bullet points so the most salient—the points the administration
objected to most—no longer fell at the start of the bullet points. I shared
these strategies with the three members of the data team also writing these
reports. Our Saturday and Sunday report-writing routine soon became: write,
submit, revise, hide, resubmit.
Fortunately, this
strategic sleight-of-hand worked. That they never seemed to catch this
subterfuge left me to conclude that, either they read the finished reports too
quickly or they neglected to do the word search that would have revealed the
language to which they objected. In slipping these changes past the gatekeepers
and continuing to inform the governors of the need for the big-three mitigations—masks,
sentinel testing, and limits on indoor social gatherings—I felt confident I was
giving the states permission to escalate public health mitigation with the fall
and winter coming.
Who empowered her to
do this?
According to Dr.
Birx, it was Mike Pence.
Not only was Mike Pence empowering Dr. Birx to lock down America, he was also empowering an intelligence operative with no medical experience named Olivia Troye to pretend to be a “COVID advisor” with a taste for experimental vaccine mandates.
When Dr. Scott Atlas
was appointed to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, he quickly learned
that Dr. Birx was the most delusional person in the room — and so he wondered
(naturally) why she was in the room at all:
I also asked how she
had been appointed—that seemed to be a bit of a mystery to everyone. I was told
by Jared, more than once, “Dr. Birx is 100 percent MAGA!”—as if that should
make all the other issues somehow less important. Secretary Azar denied appointing
her during his stint running the Task Force. I was told by the VP’s chief of
staff, Marc Short, that Pence “inherited her” when he took over as chair of the
Task Force. No one seemed to know.
You simply must
read Michael Senger’s review of Birx’s book too —
there’s half a dozen key quotes and insights that can’t be covered here.
As for the long
history of failure by our public health bureaucrats, there’s a fantastic article about CDC Director
Robert Redfield when he was pushing an AIDS vaccine in the early 1990s. Who was
Redfield’s research assistant at the time? Deborah Birx. Who defended his
(alleged) manipulation of data to push his AIDS vaccine? Deborah Birx.
To pump her new book
in the media, Dr. Birx made a remarkable statement about its contents: “In the
book, I expose the true cost of mistakes that were made at all levels of the
federal government, but I also clarify the things that went right yet remained
largely unseen — the insights and innovations that saved American lives in this
pandemic and are essential to preparing for the next.”
This is the
quintessential bureaucratic statement: Dr. Birx admits that the federal
government made huge mistakes, while neglecting to mention that she’s
the one who made the huge mistakes.
No wonder her latest gig is a fellowship at the George
W. Bush Institute.
