The Modern Diotima
For the past 3 months the American media has been squarely focused on one member of the President's "Coronavirus Task Force." The doctor who has been at the heart of everything controversial is the same man who told us back in January: “But, this not a major threat for the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/03/flashback-fauci-coronavirus-us-threat-trump/
A month later Dr Fauci told us after first saying 2 million, "between 100,000 and 200,000" people may die from COVID-19 in the US.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823517467/fauci-estimates-that-100-000-to-200-000-americans-could-die-from-the-coronavirus
His latest projections have been scaled down dramatically: "I believe we are going to see a downturn in that, and it looks more like the 60,000 [range] than the 100,000 to 200,000"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492007-fauci-us-death-toll-looks-more-like-60000-than-100-200k-estimate
All of the egregious miscues by the doctor advising the President have largely been ignored by the media. The msm has placed Dr Fauci on a pedestal for political reasons. They have on occasion been able to play him against the President.
What has gone unheralded is the expertise of the Task Force's Coronavirus Response Coordinator : Dr Deborah Birx. Dr Birx worked her way up through Dr Fauci's lab and she became a specialist in HIV research, leading the clinical trial of RV 144, which was the only supporting evidence of any vaccine lowering the risk of contracting HIV. Later as a leader at the CDC, she would serve Barak Obama as US Global Aids Coordinator . In February she was appointed as Coronavirus Response Coordinator.
It was she who put Dr Fauci's earlier death projections into proper perspective: “That’s the projection if you do nothing”
It was she who put the new guidelines for the reopening of states into proper perspective.
When asked a question about the process, she used Florida as the primary example:
COLLINS : “I have a question for you as well. The Governor of South Carolina announced today they’re going to open some stores with restrictions, but they just told my colleague Natasha Chen that they have not achieved that criteria in the White House guidelines about the downward trajectory for 14 days. So shouldn’t they not be reopening stores today?”
BIRX : “We have asked every governor to follow the guidelines just as we’ve asked every American to follow the guidelines put out by the President, but each of the governors can decide for themselves whether they’ve reached specific guidelines in specific areas.
I had a question, I think on Saturday about Jacksonville and their beaches.
So I did spend about five hours going to every state website and I will tell you that the Florida’s Department of Health website is extraordinary and this is what every Department of Health should have because when you go to that website you can see that most of the cases are in southern Florida in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County area.
And if you look in Jacksonville, they had less than 20 cases per day and less than 800 in four weeks. And so these are the kinds — when you inform the public and give them the information that they need, then they can make decisions along with the local government and governor.
So I’m not going to say specifically with South Carolina because I don’t know their specific website right now and I don’t talk about data unless I’ve seen it myself, but I know from Jacksonville that they had less than 20 cases a day.
And so this is how we need to start informing the community.
These websites are critical, it’s by zip code and it’s by county.
They can see cases, they can see cumulative cases, they can see new cases, they can see hospitalizations, they can see mortality, they can see age groups of mortality, and they can see where every testing piece is.
This is how we have to inform the American public and this is where the American public will develop confidence.”
Thus we have a strong woman, much like the one who supposedly instructed Socrates, one who now guides the nation via confidence and strength rather than causing fear and panic. Unfortunately, just like with the wise female philosopher of Symposium , Dr Birx will not find fame or notoriety.
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"but to say that to the American people, to make the implication that when they need a hospital bed, it's not going to be there, or when they need that ventilator, it's not going to be there, we don't have evidence of that right now."
Was Dr. Fauci also not the person who also said that COVID-19 wasn't transmitted human to human in, I believe, FEBRUARY 2020? Back then, he also believed the wet market CCP scam. He believed lies from WHO and China, and as an experienced scientist should have known better.
He is also the person who said that people shouldn't shake hands anymore, which led many dumbass social media left-wingers to proclaim that Dr. Fauci made a law banning hand-shaking.
Dr. Birx is far more steadying and calming with her scientifically-based facts than Dr. Fauci is with his fear-mongering.
Despite all his experience & "expertise", he swallowed every bit of it.
He is also the person who said that people shouldn't shake hands anymore, which led many dumbass social media left-wingers to proclaim that Dr. Fauci made a law banning hand-shaking.
Yes and Yes.
Dr. Birx is far more steadying and calming with her scientifically-based facts than Dr. Fauci is with his fear-mongering.
Yes Sir.
Not sure where you conclude Dr. Birx will not find "fame". She is on national television, often with a speaking role, nearly every day.
Vic, it is not AT ALL difficult to observe that you like Dr Birx because she is more in alignment with Trump's assessments than Fauci is.
Big deal.
She has done a good job although a little too eager to please Trump, at least on camera.
And who would you remember, John?
Vic, it is not AT ALL difficult to observe that you like Dr Birx because she is more in alignment with Trump's assessments than Fauci is.
That's projection. You love Fauci because he was used against the President you rabidly hate. You dislike the strong woman in the room because she can't be used.
Big deal.
It is a big deal. History will find the haters in hiding, denying they were who they were when their grand children ask.
She has done a good job
You bet she is!