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A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say

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A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say

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9/23/20
Once a fixture at the administration's coronavirus briefings, Dr. Deborah Birx has confided to aides and friends that she has become so unhappy with what she sees as her diminished role as coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force that she is not certain how much longer she can serve in her position. Birx has told people around her that she is "distressed" with the direction of the task force, describing the situation inside the nation's response to the coronavirus as nightmarish. According to people familiar with her thinking, Birx views Dr. Scott Atlas, a recent addition to the task force, as an unhealthy influence on President Donald Trump's thinking when it comes to the virus. "The President has found somebody who matches what he wants to believe," a source close to Birx said of her view of Atlas's relationship with Trump. "There is no doubt that she feels that her role has been diminished." Birx believes Atlas is feeding the President misleading information about the efficacy of face masks for controlling the spread of the virus, the source said. Trump, whose rallies draw crowds of supporters who refuse to wear masks, has repeatedly mocked Democratic rival Joe Biden for using them.

Atlas, a neuroradiologist without expertise in infectious diseases, has seen his prominent role on the task force come under some scrutiny as respected medical experts have questioned his controversial flirtation with "herd immunity" as a solution for the outbreak in the US.
"When you isolate everyone, including all the healthy people, you're prolonging the problem because you're preventing population immunity. Low-risk groups getting the infection is not a problem," Atlas told Fox News in July. Trump has invited Atlas to appear at recent White House news conferences to field questions from reporters. Noticeably absent in the briefing room are Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading authority on infectious diseases. James Glassman, a friend of Birx and a former top State Department official during the George W. Bush administration, said the task force coordinator is trying to make the best of a difficult situation. "Dr. Birx is out in the states with the most trouble, telling them the right things about masks and distancing and going back to school," Glassman said. "She's ignoring the nonsense from Scott Atlas and just getting the job done -- just as I've seen her do, fighting AIDS for the past 15 years."

In Congressional testimony yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with Senator Rand Paul and said that quite frankly he is tired of the disinformation that Paul spouts and went on to correct Paul's erroneous statements.

Birx is a good soldier and lacks that sort of backbone.
 
A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say

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In Congressional testimony yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with Senator Rand Paul and said that quite frankly he is tired of the disinformation that Paul spouts and went on to correct Paul's erroneous statements.

Birx is a good soldier and lacks that sort of backbone.
Birx isn't a politician (thank goodness), and is no doubt under constant pressure from Trumpco to tell the nation's citizenry what Trump wants them to hear. I understand her frustration; a professional surrounded by dumb political amateurs who think they know better.
 
Birx isn't a politician (thank goodness), and is no doubt under constant pressure from Trumpco to tell the nation's citizenry what Trump wants them to hear. I understand her frustration; a professional surrounded by dumb political amateurs who think they know better.

Like many of Trumps enablers, Birx is trashing her professional reputation in the hopes of minimizing Trumps COVID excesses.
 
Like many of Trumps enablers, Birx is trashing her professional reputation in the hopes of minimizing Trumps COVID excesses.
I think her reputation is strong enough among her peers that Trump's hysterics won't damage it. She's under a great deal of political pressure; something she is not accustomed to, and it shows. A decent person among a bunch of one-track minded and unqualified political hacks who are doing everything in their power to ensure Trump's election victory by putting out misleading and contradictory information about the virus. Idiots like Rand Paul are the usual suspects.
 
She's under a great deal of political pressure; something she is not accustomed to, and it shows.

She willingly remains in this position, and helps maintain the credibility of Pence's farcical Coronavirus Task Force.

Asked yesterday why Trump is holding packed political rally's that trash all White House COVID guidelines, Pence's response was "Well, we're in an election year."

And yet, Birx swallows this added new indignity and maintains her head in the sand posture.

I'm sorry, but I just can't drum up sympathy for anyone that willingly and faithfully serves in the Trump regime.

Pence defends Trump holding rallies amid coronavirus
 
People can't work for the mafia forever. Unless they're forced to.
 
She willingly remains in this position, and helps maintain the credibility of Pence's farcical Coronavirus Task Force.

Asked yesterday why Trump is holding packed political rally's that trash all White House COVID guidelines, Pence's response was "Well, we're in an election year."

And yet, Birx swallows this added new indignity and maintains her head in the sand posture.

I'm sorry, but I just can't drum up sympathy for anyone that willingly and faithfully serves in the Trump regime.

Pence defends Trump holding rallies amid coronavirus
At least she has the guts, amidst a sea of sycophants, to contradict and correct him when he starts babbling incoherent nonsense; there are precious few left willing to do that and speak truth to power.
 
At least she has the guts, amidst a sea of sycophants, to contradict and correct him when he starts babbling incoherent nonsense; there are precious few left willing to do that and speak truth to power.

She sat there mute as trump implicated her with his injecting disinfectant nonsense.

Birx wouldn't say shit if she had a mouthful.
 
She sat there mute as trump implicated her with his injecting disinfectant nonsense.

Birx wouldn't say shit if she had a mouthful.
What would you like her to say that she already hasn't? She has been vocal about wearing masks and social distancing, in contrast to the idiot in the White House who has done little else but downplay a killer pandemic for political convenience.
 
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