Dr. Birx is making the rounds, seeking absolution for her inaction

[marmar]

Dr. Deborah Birx revealed she had a resignation pact with other doctors on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team, and said Trump’s outlandish public comments during the early days of the pandemic made her wish she was in the “Twilight Zone.”

Birx, in a sweeping interview with ABC News Monday about her work on the front lines of the pandemic, told the story behind Trump’s infamous April 2020 news conference in which he mused about using injected disinfectant as a treatment for COVID-19. Birx, caught frozen on camera as Trump spoke, said she was “paralyzed” when the then-president brought that up.

She said minutes later during Trump’s news conference that disinfectants were “not a treatment,” but was later lambasted for failing to call out Trump and others in his White House for spreading disproven and at times dangerous ideas.

Vehemently rebutting Trump’s claim would have been the “logical and important thing to do,” Birx acknowledged to ABC News. But “I was paralyzed in that moment because it was so unexpected.” .............(more)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/birx-resignation-pact_n_62677181e4b0197ae3fa3c69?

[sop]

1. Turned off Morning Joe during Birx's segment.

The whole former Trump stooge tell-all book media tour bullshit has become too much to bear.

[Zambero]

2. I was paralyzed when Trump won in 2016

Beyond that point, anyone with half a brain should have been prepared for anything and everything batshit crazy. Birx must have thought that even Trump had a limit to how demonstrably ignorant he would reveal himself to be. When that turned out not to be the case, anyone in her position should have spoken out without delay. Paralysis, indeed.

[niyad]

3. Sorry, but you lost whatever shred of credibility you had left in that moment.

You had already stated publicly that the F'n, murrdering, orange TRAITOR** had an amazing grasp of data and concepts.

Your silence and complicity cost lives. Your license should be revoked.

[LakeArenal]

4. Yessssssss

[Mad_Machine76]

5. What would it have taken

for them to initiate that resignation pact? Because they didn't AFAIK

[Iggo]

13. Yeah. Where in the actual fuck was that line?

Way beyond injecting bleach and shining a black light up your ass, I guess. Horse dewormer? Was that on her watch? I don’t remember.

But really. Where was the line that, if crossed, would have triggered this mass resignation?

[UTUSN]

6. I was schooled here that she did tons of facetime outreach at the local levels while

she (I say) silently collaborated with Drumpf in big media appearances.

Like the Pony Express would compete in communication against the internet, tv, telegraph, et al.

[area51]

7. Dr. Scarf could have walked away from flaming dumpster fire TFG at anytime.

She needs to take a long walk off a short pier.

[gratuitous]

8. Oh, don't sweat it, Dr. Birx

It's not like anybody died.

Wait . . .

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Plugging a new book.

Hoping to gin up some $$$ off the pandemic.

[Demsrule86]

10. She praised Trump on Fox News...so she is a damn liar.

[IcyPeas]

11. Birx: "[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his...

"[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit” -- this is shocking, hackish stuff from Dr. Birx.

Link to tweet

[malaise]

12. Hawking a book

I pass

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Debbie . . . . . . just go home.

[spanone]

15. Another book tour

[hatrack]

16. Scarfamucci can FOAD

Hoping to never see her face or hear her name again.

She can go sit on a pillar in the desert for 30 years a la St. Simeon Stylites, and seek absolution elsewhere.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Holey Moley. She has to remediate and Fauci didn't.