The COVID-19 'It wasn't my fault' tour begins in earnest

[babylonsister]

The COVID-19 'It wasn't my fault' tour begins in earnest
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Saturday March 27, 2021 · 10:58 PM EDT


The “It wasn’t my fault” tour is in full swing.

We heard from Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC and one of Trump’s prime stooges during the COVID-19 pandemic, venturing that that if only China had been a little more forthcoming, the U.S. response under Trump would have been so, so drastically different.

Speaking Saturday to CNN, and rather than trying to justify his own abysmal performance during the worst public health crisis the country has experienced in over a century, he instead chose to repeat the discredited and debunked “lab myth:”

Without citing any evidence to back up his claim, Redfield also told Gupta he believes the pandemic originated in a lab in China that was already studying the virus, a controversial theory that the World Health Organization called "extremely unlikely" and for which there is no clear evidence.

Still, Redfield filled up the Internets up with words, and maybe, just maybe, he will be able to salvage his career, working quietly cleaning bedpans in some nondescript medical hell-hole somewhere in the American “heartland.” Which would be far more than he deserves.

But this is really, really just too much for any words:

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator under the Trump administration, reveals her chilling conclusion in a new CNN documentary that the number of coronavirus deaths could have been "decreased substantially" if cities and states across the country had aggressively applied the lessons of the first surge toward mitigation last spring, potentially preventing the surges that followed

In other words, mistakes were made “last spring.” If some mysterious and unnamed “others” in those “cities and states” had just not been complicit in those mistakes, so many people would be alive right now!

"I look at it this way. The first time we have an excuse," Birx says. "There were about a hundred thousand deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."

In “her mind” the number of deaths could have been “mitigated or decreased substantially.”

Well, what exactly was in her “mind,” last spring? How hard would it have been for a 64 year-old physician and diplomat, with a career fully established, well ensconced and secure in her position, to speak out against what amounted to a politically-motivated, contrived agenda that she knew full well would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans?

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[Timewas]

1. The overall lack

The overall lack of a coordinated national response is at the root of the entire fiasco.

[babylonsister]

2. Was. Competence is changing that scenario. nt