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"Birx spearheaded the administration's recent decision to have hospitals send information on coronavirus patients to a new federal database, a source involved with the process told CNN, bypassing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency Birx has often complained about to colleagues..."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/birx-coronavirus-task-force-political-skills-reputation/index.html
She's a conservative Republican. I thought maybe she was one of the good people because of her history of HIV work, until I found out that she sat on the board of an anti-gay right-wing group whose focus was the "innocent victims" of HIV. That is extremely loaded, dangerous language. The "innocent victims" are people with HIV who are not gay men.
MontanaMama
(23,367 posts)Not for a minute.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)liberalla
(9,277 posts)reminds me of those phony, pushy, holier-than-thou church lady types.
Nevilledog
(51,286 posts)malaise
(269,299 posts)That woman allowed the Con to tell Americans to use Lysol and bleach and did not interrupt him. I would have been fired on spot, but I would have shouted "Are you out of your fucking mind", live on air.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)malaise speaks my language.
malaise
(269,299 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)When she went on camera telling us how bunkerboi consumes information and studies the data, me and the rest of the world said YEAH I DONT THINK SO LADY
central scrutinizer
(11,666 posts)[link:http://
|Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)alittlelark
(18,891 posts)diva77
(7,683 posts)Demsrule86
(68,803 posts)C Moon
(12,226 posts)will all depart on the same day, without leaving any information for the new administration.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Nevilledog
(51,286 posts)FUBirx
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Nevilledog
(51,286 posts)krkaufman
(13,438 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)she's made her bones.
Mike Nelson
(9,990 posts)... I've never trusted her... her words and "charts" are presented in a way to praise Trump-Pence. She hurries over unflattering stuff and promotes falsehoods. She may not be completely happy with her president, but I think she's loyal to him.
... also, I've noticed many here on DU could tell she was "off" somewhat - from the moment she arrived on the scene.
procon
(15,805 posts)and eliminated her competition. She's large and in charge now, and she's gonna flaunted well earned bonus loyalty points with Trump for the cheap price of selling her professional honor and integrity.
Now that she's assured that Trump has sole possession of the hospital statistical data, there is nothing stopping him from altering and manipulating the info to suit his agenda.
The only saving grace is Trump's lack of credibility which makes him inherently distrusted. So whatever crapifying he tries to do to the numbers, no one is going to believe anything he says.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)in their last moments. They can manipulate morgues being filled and having to use refrigerated trucks to hold bodies. All of those events are highly abnormal, they cant be hidden.
chia
(2,244 posts)and now I know why. Thanks for the added information.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Takket
(21,704 posts)MLAA
(17,372 posts)Disgusting that she was on the anti LGBTQ HIV board.
bucolic_frolic
(43,496 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,604 posts)She should lose her medical license for deliberately giving false information.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)President Biden will have a great deal of cleaning up to do come January 2021. I am willing to pitch in and do my part. Not sure what that may be just yet, but I am willing and able to do my part.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)sounded like the same kind of things that Trump would want her to say. She is dirt.
a kennedy
(29,774 posts)bluestarone
(17,122 posts)Fauci has proved them ALL WRONG her included!!
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)Businesses do it all the time.
Updates would not be a massive amount of data.
Mopar151
(10,013 posts)You BCC The CDC
choie
(4,112 posts)for a policy change that was roundly blasted.
Mopar151
(10,013 posts)jaxexpat
(6,882 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)BadgerMom
(2,772 posts)Let everyone know!
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)when he turns to her and calls her "Deborah", never "Dr. Birx".
She absolutely radiates a glowing aura of deep fundy forbidden NEED.
not fooled
(5,805 posts)Yet another religious kook who wants this country to be a (fake) xtian theocracy and believes in the Noble Lie, for Jeebus.
Initech
(100,145 posts)Thousands died needlessly because of this act of pure recklessness, and thousands more are going to lose their lives before this pandemic is over. This is grossly irresponsible, and Birx and Trump should both be charged for this.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)God I wish Jesus would hurry up and wisk all the Christians off in the rapture.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)Rotten......... .witch.
applegrove
(118,915 posts)conferences then i found out she worked with aids patients, was hired to do that before Trump was elected and thought my gut was wrong. My gut was right. I'd rather be wrong.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)luvallpeeps
(935 posts)She was concerned about the innocent victims of HIV, but the innocent victims of covid 19 can go inject bleach. Got it.
Progressive dog
(6,931 posts)is just another Trump toady. That's why he put her as the face of covid19 propaganda.