Dr. Birx's Fake Science Revealed in Her Own Words

In a previous article, I examined the murky circumstances behind the appointment of Dr. Deborah Birx as Coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force.

• Birx did not get the job due to her medical or public health experience - both of which were related mostly to AIDS, a virus entirely unlike SARS-CoV-2 in terms of how it spreads, how long it incubates, and how it should be managed.
• Nor did Birx have any training or publications in epidemiology or pandemic management.
• The National Security Council recruited and appointed her to the job, through Deputy National Security Advisor for Asia, Matt Pottinger.

The Dreaded Silent Spread

• Everything Birx claims about the COVID pandemic is based on one idea: that the spread of the virus would be far greater and quicker due to an "unveiled silent invasion"
• Silent spread means mild disease. The more silent spread, the more people are infected but experiencing mild to undetectable symptoms

Transmissibility and Fatality

• If silent spread means most people have mild disease, why does Birx think SARS-CoV-2 is so dangerous that it merits shutting down the entire world and imposing unprecedented mitigation measures?
• When we want to know how dangerous a virus is, we have to consider how easily and quickly it spreads, and how many people who are infected end up dying.
• Instead of looking at each of those factors separately, Birx conveniently conflates them: "More exposure meant more infections, which meant a greater frequency of serious illness and death."

The Diamond Princess

• To figure out how dangerous a pathogen is, you need to calculate approximately how many people who get infected are going to die
• The more the virus infects people without killing them, the less lethal it is
• Birx concludes that because the measures she thinks are key to stopping the spread (masks and distancing) are actually not working to stop the spread, the virus is obviously spreading silently, which means we need to impose more measures
• Despite the measures the Japanese health ministry put in place, this explosive growth was clear evidence of silent spread

Testing Birx's illogical insistence that silent spread makes the virus more dangerous leads her to an even more illogical monomaniacal focus on testing and case numbers

• According to Birx, if silent spread is an evil in and of itself, the only way it can be combated is to make it less silent through testing
• The faster and more silently the virus has spread, the less useful testing and isolation become, because the virus is that much more widespread in the population already

Masking and Social Distancing

• Birx says her certainty as to the effectiveness of masking and distancing came from her time in Asia during the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic
• She conveniently fails to tell us, however, that she was not in China, where the outbreak originated, nor was she in any of the highly impacted Asian countries
• In Thailand, she was working on an AIDS vaccine, and omits the fun fact that there were 9 infections and 2 deaths in all of Thailand from that SARS virus
• However far removed she actually was from the epicenter of the2002-2004 outbreak, Birx confidently asserts that "One of the things that had kept the SARS case fatality rate from being worse was that, in Asia, the population (young and old alike) adopted the wearing of masks routinely..."
• Social distancing: "Another strategy that suppressed the 2003 SARS outbreak was social distancing guidelines-limiting how close you got to other people, especially indoors."
• This is clearly of no concern to Birx, whose purpose in The Silent Spread is apparently not to convey sound scientific or public health principles. She's much more concerned with showing how she and her co-lockdown conspirator, Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Potting Pottinger, were in agreement about all mitigation measures
• Which justifications were found or invented for masking during Covid subsequent to her appointment to the White House Task Force

Conclusion

• All of the devastating Chinese-style lockdown measures were imposed on the US and the world by government officials with no pandemic experience but lots of military and national security connections
• It was not the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its effects in the real world that concerned Birx, Pottinger and their bosses and counterparts in other countries. It was the worry or knowledge that the virus was engineered in a secretive and controversial gain-of-function research program
• Public health authorities and leaders in most countries were overruled by the national security/biosecurity contingent, due partly to the extreme danger that might be posed by the engineered virus, but also because the military/security agencies had lots of solutions waiting for just this sort of problem

https://brownstone.org/articles/dr-birxs-fake-science-revealed-in-her-own-words/