A few notes on the testimony of former director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Dr. Robert Redfield before a house committee investigating the origins of COVID 19.
If he felt that he was being frozen out of any discussion of the origins of this virus with his counterparts, then why didn’t he kick this upstairs to his bosses at Health and Human Services? After all, Secretary Azar was the overall department head. Fauci, Collins and Redfield all worked for him.
Once he became a part of the Coronavirus task force, why didn’t he bring this up with the Vice President, who headed up the task force, or Jared Kushner, who had the president’s ear, or even HUD Secretary Ben Carson, who himself was a renowned MD? More to the point, he had a kindred spirit in Dr. Scott Atlas, who joined the effort in the summer of 2020, and made no bones about ferreting out data that showed we were overreacting to this virus.
What I’m left with, in the aftermath of all that happened, is an individual who had no spine to stand up for what he believed. Even worse, that belief would prove to be the most likely cause of our predicament, covered up by the perpetrators of this entire sad state of affairs.
A few notes on the former VP and his claim that Donald Trump put him and his family in danger because of the Jan 6th riot at the Capitol.
Given my reading of a verbatim copy of the transcript of Trump’s speech that day, not a single word was spoken that would have incited the sort of violence and lawlessness that we witnessed. To the contrary Mr. Trump urged his supporters to head over to the Capitol and peacefully make their voices heard. When a side-by-side comparison of the timelines of the festivities and the Capitol breach are compared, it becomes evident that the violence had already started before the President’s speech had concluded.
Having read Dr. Atlas’ book about his time at the White House, it becomes apparent that the VP and Chief of Staff (COS) did not acquit themselves very well. The President was looking for a paradigm shift for how this pandemic was being handled. He stated on multiple occasions that the cure could not be worse than the disease, but that’s exactly what happened. Rather than take heed of the actionable information Dr. Atlas was producing, the VP and COS decided that they were unwilling to rock the boat and make any dramatic changes as to how things were proceeding. Individuals who are now household names like Drs. Jay Bhattacharya and John Ionides of Stanford, Dr. Martin Kuldorf of Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and Dr. Joseph Ladapo of UCLA, all gave feedback to Dr. Atlas on their findings and even made a visit to the White House to meet the President and speak with the VP. Drs. Gupta, Bhattacharya, and Kuldorf would go on to pen the Great Barrington Declaration arguing that we knew who this virus adversely affected and that measures could be put in place to mitigate its effects on them. Dr. Ladapo so impressed Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida that he was offered the job of Surgeon General of the State. Yet all these heavy hitters barely moved the needle.
Can you imagine what would have happened had these opportunities been taken advantage of? The pandemic for all practical purposes would have been over by the fall of 2020. The economy would have been opened up again, with minimal damage done to it. Schools could have reopened for a new school year with minimal loss of learning on the part of students (on the downside, parents wouldn’t have been able to see for themselves the nonsense being jammed into their kids’ heads). This would have cemented Trump’s (and Pence’s for that matter) reelection in the 2020 general, and we wouldn’t be suffering through the fallout created from rank incompetence and corruption of the so-called adults in the room in the current administration.
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