Rewriting History

It seems that we have some public health authorities and politicians who either have very poor memories or have just decided that the only way out for them is to just rewrite history.

Exhibit #1 is Dr. Deborah Birx who, with Dr. Tony Fauci, led the federal Covid response during the first year.

Here is Dr. Birx last week stating that "I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines ..."

Really?

She then goes on to say even though they don't protect against infection they do protect against severe disease and hospitalization.

However, right after she goes on to state that 50% of those who have died recently were older and vaccinated and tells people the best answer is to get early treatment. That 50% number itself probably understates the real numbers.

If she knew the vaccines were not going to protect against infection why was Birx so adamant that the vaccines were the only way we were going to get to herd immunity?

This is Birx speaking in September, 2020.

“Neither I, nor anybody in the administration, is willing to sacrifice American lives for herd immunity. We’ll get to herd immunity through a vaccine and that’s the right way to do it,” Birx told reporters during a briefing at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan.

Birx was responding to news reports that new White House pandemic advisor Scott Atlas, who is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, had advocated for the Trump administration to lift all social and business restrictions aimed at stopping infections from spreading.

Once enough individuals have been infected and become immune, others are less likely to be infected, creating what health officials call “herd immunity.”

In December, 2020, just as the Covid vaccines were rolling out Birx said this to ABC.

Source: https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1552668134779211777

 

These were "highly effective vaccines" yet Birx now claims she knew that they "were not going to protect against infection."

Rewriting history? 

History is showing that Dr. Scott Atlas and others were right. Birx and Fauci were wrong including denying that natural immunity from prior infection was better than vaccinal immunity.  

Exhibit #2 is Dr. Fauci who stated last week that "I didn't recommend locking anything down".

Of course, in October, 2020 there is video of Fauci admitting that "I recommended to the President that we shut the country down".

Source: https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1551946470533656583

If that is not bad enough, last week Fauci said the 2020 Covid restrictions "should have been much, much more stringent."

Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-covid-restrictions-should-have-been-much-much-more-stringent/

Fauci's statement is ridiculous on its face as President Trump told the story a number of times of when Fauci came into the Oval Office and told him that they needed to lockdown the country. Trump said he was incredulous but he followed the recommendation.

Trump also extended the original 15 days to slow the spread on Fauci's recommendation even though Trump was skeptical of the extension.

Trump clearly did not come upon the idea to lockdown the country (or extend it further) on his own.

Of course, even Donald Trump is trying to rewrite history.

Here is Trump stating “I just listened to Fauci and whatever he said, I did the opposite… I came out very good.”

If only that was true.

The sad reality is that Trump did almost everything Fauci told him to do early on because it was "the science".

Trump should have fired Fauci after the first couple of months of the pandemic but he knew that the good Doctor had too much support among the media and Democrats. Trump did not want to take the political risk of taking on Fauci before the election. I understand why he did it but it shows why letting politics determine critical decisions never works out in the end.

I believe that Trump also may need to rewrite history again due to the amount of bragging he did about his role in the development of the "warp speed" vaccines. If you notice, he has recently not been talking about this very much for good reason.

Trump's support for the vaccines may ultimately prove to be a liability in the 2024 GOP primary rather than an asset depending on what happens next with the virus. If that occurs there will be many who will point the finger of blame at Trump and Big Pharma.

Joe Biden has also been rewriting history himself.

Do you remember Biden's famous line during the campaign that he was going to shutdown the virus?

The average number of confirmed Covid cases per capita is actually more than 60% higher during the Biden term than it was when Trump was President.

The vaccines were also available during the entirety of the Biden term. They only were first administered in the last month of the Trump term.

Is this what shutting down the virus is supposed to look like?

That must be the reason the Biden White House is now bragging about the "success" of how many more people are being treated with Paxlovid after they have become sick with the virus.

More people infected, more people benefiting from Paxlovid.

SUCCESS!

This caused one doctor to tweet this.

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/12/fact-sheet-biden-administration-outlines-strategy-to-manage-ba-5/

What about the claim that Biden made that he was not going to shutdown the economy?

It was announced yesterday that second quarter GDP declined by -.9%.

That follows a first quarter GDP decline of -1.6%.

Until this week the general consensus among economists was that a recession was defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in the nation's GDP.

How many of the last ten recessions were defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth?

It was TEN.

Source: https://twitter.com/covid_clarity/status/1552663951699283970

The White House and mainstream media has now decided that is no longer the case.

I wonder why?

Joe Biden said this in a virtual meeting with CEO's and labor leaders on Monday.

"We're not going to be in a recession".

Source: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/biden-recession-economy-gdp-growth?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Joe Biden is not only rewriting history, he is even attempting to rewrite it before it is even written.

Beware the narrative.

Know the facts.

Know when someone is attempting to rewrite history.