The Clearest Account Yet of How Trump’s Team Botched the Pandemic
Birx does a very good job of distilling what went wrong. She repeatedly emphasizes what she identifies as the principal fault in the Trump administration’s pandemic response: a failure to recognize the importance of asymptomatic transmission (thus the book’s title). She laments testing problems, including initial refusals to enlist the private sector, mistakes at the CDC, and later failures to ramp up diagnostics. Birx also cites the CDC’s consistent failure to develop good data about the pandemic, and places this at the center of reforms she proposes toward the book’s end.
But what sets Silent Invasion apart is how Birx, with the writing assistance of Gary Brozek, unhesitatingly names names (and dates and places). She does so with much more detail and nuance than we’ve had from anyone else. Birx paints a portrait of an administration in full, made up of people with a mix of talents and motivations. Where other chroniclers describe the White House as if it had just one occupant, Birx gives us the full cast. The book’s first 150 pages, on the period from January through March 2020, are especially riveting. In the early crucial weeks of the crisis, she writes, “some roaming the halls of the West Wing believed that the less we did, the less we would be held accountable for whatever was about to happen.”
Birx has her own list of bad guys. The worst is Scott Atlas, the radiologist whose epidemiology advice Trump came to take. Atlas, she writes, repeatedly responded to group emails from her by hitting “Reply All” and then removing her from the list before sending. Other lead villains include presidential Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (who seems to care only about politics) and vice-presidential Chief of Staff Marc Short.
admiree2 almost 2 years ago
Isn’t it supposed to be “Death Be Not Proud”? Perhaps in another era of US history.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Thanks republicans.
gourken almost 2 years ago
Family photo – From left to right, young master NRA Death, Proud papa, Mr. Antivax Death and teenaged party-girl Big Pharam death.
braindead Premium Member almost 2 years ago
“We WANT them infected!” — the most effective and enduring policy of the fat slob of Mar-a-lago.
Rich Douglas almost 2 years ago
There is a common theme there.
GiantShetlandPony almost 2 years ago
Yup, Republicans do everything they can to keep the three in business.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
The Clearest Account Yet of How Trump’s Team Botched the Pandemic
Birx does a very good job of distilling what went wrong. She repeatedly emphasizes what she identifies as the principal fault in the Trump administration’s pandemic response: a failure to recognize the importance of asymptomatic transmission (thus the book’s title). She laments testing problems, including initial refusals to enlist the private sector, mistakes at the CDC, and later failures to ramp up diagnostics. Birx also cites the CDC’s consistent failure to develop good data about the pandemic, and places this at the center of reforms she proposes toward the book’s end.
But what sets Silent Invasion apart is how Birx, with the writing assistance of Gary Brozek, unhesitatingly names names (and dates and places). She does so with much more detail and nuance than we’ve had from anyone else. Birx paints a portrait of an administration in full, made up of people with a mix of talents and motivations. Where other chroniclers describe the White House as if it had just one occupant, Birx gives us the full cast. The book’s first 150 pages, on the period from January through March 2020, are especially riveting. In the early crucial weeks of the crisis, she writes, “some roaming the halls of the West Wing believed that the less we did, the less we would be held accountable for whatever was about to happen.”
Birx has her own list of bad guys. The worst is Scott Atlas, the radiologist whose epidemiology advice Trump came to take. Atlas, she writes, repeatedly responded to group emails from her by hitting “Reply All” and then removing her from the list before sending. Other lead villains include presidential Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (who seems to care only about politics) and vice-presidential Chief of Staff Marc Short.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-clearest-account-yet-of-how-trump-s-team-botched-the-pandemic/ar-AAXeE2B?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b164f67276324dbab4e643a896c75833FrankErnesto almost 2 years ago
That part’s the will of God. We care about the unborn, the ones that God desires, and Man murders.
dalton9529 almost 2 years ago
There are no prolife Republicans. Some of them are pro birth.
FreyjaRN Premium Member almost 2 years ago
I wonder where the QOP keeps their family albums.
Randoblyth almost 2 years ago
Don’t forget cigarettes!
djtenltd almost 2 years ago
@Rad-ish- Why should they care? It’s not affecting them!