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Yes, she’s completely incompetent. And, yes, I will forever hold it against Trump that he didn’t fire her.

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The best doctors and scientists do not work in government - in fact it’s a bastion for the worst who can’t find success elsewhere.

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A Pandemic of Those Who Were Denied Early Treatment.

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Test test test was just for fear fear fear and money money money

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Thanks for reading it for us ;-) I am happy in the knowledge I don't have to.

Horrifying to think that we had morons like this, and worse, running these programs. Beyond belief.

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Alex read Birx's book so we don't have to. Thank you.

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So many people think government and medical professionals are infallible. “Science” has replaced religion and these officials and doctors are the new priests telling you they’re not abusing your kids.

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Dr Scott Atlas did say she seemed to not know what she was doing, even with charts.

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What surprises me is the lack of outrage from everyone who took the shot finding out she knew the shots were ineffective. That’s what really surprises me.

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Aug 10, 2022·edited Aug 10, 2022

idk if she's really that concerned with asymptomatic transmission

she told all the little people to stay home & promptly took her family to delaware for thanksgiving in 2020 & then told weird lies about it

https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/birx-went-to-florida-on-thanksgiving-despite-her-travel-warnings/

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I've got a high school general education on health/ science. Sounds like I could've been the White House Response Coordinator to the Ro-Ro.

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She is a fanatic. Not a scientist. Searching. Doubling down. Never seeing the real picture. But Alex has really hit upon the key thing here. The "we have to do something" crowd. That group is all over modern medicine. Many of these "somethings" end up being incredibly harmful to patients.

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"Still, her fixation on testing is a perfect example of Santayana’s definition of fanaticism: redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. Testing is controllable and measurable, it is proof that the public health authorities are doing something, even if that something makes no difference."

Sorry Alex but her fanaticism is likely based on financial opportunity... A man or woman cannot understand when their income depends on not understanding it. Paraphrased from HL Mencken.

Power is important but money drives their motives......

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Alex, thanks for reading her piece of trash and giving the highlights as I refuse to give her any royalty payment in buying the book. I told everyone in April 2020, that Trump should have fired Birx and Fauci as it was clear that they were both scientifically incompetent and politically compromised and motivated to ignore what little science they did know. I am an expert on Influenza and I urge everyone to listen to Alex's comments on the ineffectiveness of the Influenza shot (it's the 2nd fastest mutating virus in the world..vaccine not!). Birx is an ignorant and very bad person and now she has a posh job making big money and sitting on her Imaginary Pedestal shouting down to the little proles.

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And Pence included her in the team???

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It’s baffling that Michael Mina, who famously claimed that rapid antigen tests were the way out of Covid 19 back in November 2020 (the Time article promoting his claims is hilarious to read 2 years later), which he pointed to the UK and Slovakia completely crushing Covid*, documented his own symptoms of Covid hour by hour on Twitter this past March, noting that test after test showed negative even though he was clearly sick, until day 3 finally hit positive, and he STILL is out preaching the power of rapid tests (I’m sure it has zero to do with him now working in the testing industry).

Unbelievable there are people still convinced these can make an impact when every single country tried them and failed. Every. Single. Country.

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*the Time article with these claims published literally the day before cases in the UK and Slovakia would skyrocket, Michael Mina surprisingly never offered an explanation on why his strategy only worked until winter arrived.

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