Monday, December 06, 2021

Covid’s Three Blind Mice: Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, and Robert Redfield

Very recommendable! A long book review article! The whole article is full of incredible events, stupid decisions etc. Finally, we learn more who was behind this colossal federal government failure with respect to the SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 response and what they did! 

It is an incredible story! The Faucian bargain comes to light! Apparently, Anthony Fauci already failed and was discredited decades ago as far as the AIDS epidemic was concerned!!!

Unfortunately, for President Trump and Vice President Pence not to fire these three quacks in time was a huge mistake!

"How could public officials vowing to “follow the science” on Covid-19 persist in promoting ineffective strategies with terrible consequences? In a memoir of his time on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Scott W. Atlas provides an answer: because the nation’s governance was hijacked by three bureaucrats with scant interest in scientific research or debate—and no concern for the calamitous effects of their edicts. ...
Atlas calls them “the troika” because of their strategy for presenting a united front, never disagreeing with one another during the meetings in the White House Situation Room. (Reporting later revealed that they had made a pact to resign in unison if any of them was fired.) 
These veterans of the federal bureaucracy had worked closely together during the AIDS epidemic, and their track record was hardly reassuring. Their long and costly quest to develop an AIDS vaccine ultimately failed, but they did manage to persuade the public that AIDS would spread widely beyond gay men and intravenous drug users. Redfield, with some help from Fauci, was the chief prophet of a “heterosexual breakout,” a threat that terrified Americans for more than a decade but never materialized. ...
Atlas writes, “because I couldn’t believe my ears. ‘So you think people aren’t frightened enough?’ [Fauci] said, ‘Yes, they need to be more afraid.’ To me, this was another moment of Kafkaesque absurdity ...
Fauci got the most media attention of the troika, but Atlas thinks that Birx did the most damage. As Pence’s chief subordinate on the Task Force, she shaped its agenda, participated in the regular “Covid huddle” with White House officials, and traveled the country, successfully pressuring state and local leaders to issue mask mandates and close businesses and schools. In one of Atlas’s first meetings with her, he asked her what she considered the strongest scientific evidence for the efficacy of masks against Covid. She cited a report published by the Centers for Disease Control about a hair salon in Missouri, where two stylists infected with Covid had worn masks that supposedly prevented the virus from infecting their customers.
“I knew the study well,” Atlas writes, “having already dissected it in detail with a few epidemiologists before I set foot in Washington. My colleagues had all laughed at it. It was poorly done, and the conclusions were not valid. It was an embarrassment that it had been published prominently on the CDC website.” Among the many limitations of this small study, critics had noted that, while none of the customers contacted by the researchers reported Covid symptoms, most of them were never tested for the virus, and many of the stylists’ customers were never contacted at all. ..."


Review of A Plague Upon Our House by Scott Atlas | City Journal A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America,






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