400,000 dead people means you don't get to have a confessional interview that humanises the struggle you felt sitting there doing fuck all
Yet she just stood by and did nothing. She could've quit.
You just gave her a title for her memoirs.
It must be a difficult situation to be in. Even beyond protecting your career I'm sure it just isn't in some people's nature to be confrontation or combative, then the moment passes.
She lent Trump her credibility, and Fauci let his words get away from him which is still fueling anti-mask rhetoric. I have very little respect for either of them on this.
She lent Trump her credibility, and Fauci let his words get away from him which is still fueling anti-mask rhetoric. I have very little respect for either of them on this.
This. Shit isn't hard to understand. People died not just because of Trump's inaction but silence from individuals like her. Speaking up now when fear of retribution is off the table doesn't make one a hero. People like her shouldn't act like they were the adults in the room when they didn't act responsibly like an adult would.
I think the doctors Fauci/Birx/etc were doing work behind the scenes and eventually just got muzzled when the virus didn't go away.
That's my only rationale why Fauci didn't quit, you can't do anything media-wise (interviews), but you can do work for the CDC or help coordinate stuff.
Also dumping this on someone else or a full drumpf acolyte would have been a full blown disaster.
Imagine if Scott Atlas or Dr. Oz was on the original team
I'm not excusing her non-action but it seems like the outcomes choices were between "awful" and "disaster"
We know it was my pillow guy but she never said a word. Even getting fired would have saved her credibility hell maybe have spot with the new admin for her courage.
But no. Let the king douche lie to the people and stand back. What kinda bullshit defense is this?
But no. Let the king douche lie to the people and stand back. What kinda bullshit defense is this?
Fauci, yes. Birx, no. She consistently praised and supported Trump while he spewed lies. Fauci broke off and disagreed with Trump, that's why he was muzzled while Birx was allowed to keep talking bullshit.
She had an opportunity to help save lives and she instead chose to help her career. To hell with her.
So what should she have done exactly? Get fired in a blaze of glory on national tv saying drumpf is a fucking idiot and a liar during those COVID press briefings
Just like all the GOP senators that only speak up after they retire or are voted out of office.
Lol, even the way she describes it as 'a parallel set of data' rather than straight up saying they were lying. She is a mess. This should have been revealed when he was still in power, just shows what her true colours really are.
Throw her on the pile of "former" and "retired" people mysteriously becoming principled when it's no longer risky for them to be so.
She could have said something. She didn't. Courage is not something you save for after the fact.
Fucking love this lazy style of discussion that the internet propagates. "The only alternative is the most extreme and intense version possible!!!!!! Does that sound good to you!?!?!?!?!?!"
This is especially embarrassing when you have the easy example of Dr. Fauci directly adjacent to her. He didn't call trump a moron because he wanted to keep his job, but he never agreed with any of trump's stupidity nor did he go on air to cup trump's tiny, likely rancid smelling balls about how smart and handsome he is like birx did. At most, he said they are exploring possibilities and he wants to do tests to verify the effectiveness of the different treatments, while still pushing on the importance of creating a reliable and safe vaccine.
Birx is an enabling coward. There's looking for the good in people, and then there is denial. And you, are in denial.
So she should have just done what Fauci did?
How would that have changed anything?
All it would have done is sped up drumpf finding another puppet like Atlas.
Fuck this complicit bitch. Her cowardice cost hundreds of thousands of lives and now she's trying to absolve herself of her failures!
www.vox.com
She was a part of the propaganda machine. She could have helped a whole lot by not saying shit like this!
Deborah Birx praised Trump as attentive to scientific literature and details. Nope.
The White House coronavirus task force coordinator’s latest TV interview raises questions about her credibility.
www.vox.com
Here's the link for ya
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What exactly is the difference in result between a collaborator and someone who's indistinguishable from a collaborator?
Pretty much my thoughts on the matter. She deserves a certain amount of sympathy. I'd be afraid from my life in her position.
The "It's not my fault" argument doesn't work here.
Unfortunately by the time the country fully comes to grips with what happened during Trump's administration a lot of the perpetrators will have died from old age.
She really needs to brush up on the Nuremberg Trials.
Unfortunately by the time the country fully comes to grips with what happened during Trump's administration a lot of the perpetrators will have died from old age.
She really needs to brush up on the Nuremberg Trials.