Despite Trump opposition, it's 'difficult to
tell' if country may need to close again: Birx
ABC News,
by
Adam Kelsey
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/24/2020 1:48:13 PM
As Americans continue to emerge from quarantines and stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump declared this week that "we are not closing our country” if the United States is hit by a second wave of infections. But in an interview on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, one of the leaders of the government's response to the virus, said it is "difficult to tell" whether such a step may be necessary. "We're trying to understand during this period of coming out of the closure: How do we maintain openness and safety? And I think that's what we're going to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/24/2020 1:52:50 PM (No. 420712)
We never *needed* to close in the first place. Maybe NYC, but not the rest of us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/24/2020 1:57:05 PM (No. 420717)
Over our dead bodies. doctor, if you will pardon the pun.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 5/24/2020 2:01:05 PM (No. 420721)
I say nix on Brix. This woman should take one of her many scarves and wrap it around her mouth. Not as a mask but as a gag.
While she is at it she should give one of her scarves to Dr. Fauci for the same reason.
Enough of these non-expert "Experts" who bear most of the blame for the financial trouble we are experiencing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
excalgalcg 5/24/2020 2:04:13 PM (No. 420725)
Isn’t she and Fauci the reason we shut down to begin with? Better not happen again or the President will have to deal with an unwilling nation. This should never have happened anyway. Huge mistake.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/24/2020 2:04:32 PM (No. 420726)
I agree with # 1. In fact, I think if we'd never quarantined this would be over with. Why this one virus should be the hill the government chose to die on is beyond me. Obama brought Ebola patients here, we've had AIDS for decades and the flu kills tens of thousands every year. No whisper of quarantine for them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/24/2020 2:07:40 PM (No. 420731)
The biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people. Not even close. Fauci should be taken out and strung up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 5/24/2020 2:22:16 PM (No. 420744)
Birx isn't looking for a solution. She's adding to the chaos in hopes that PDT will not be re-elected.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/24/2020 2:26:57 PM (No. 420750)
Seal US off from NY & the Butcher of seniors.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/24/2020 2:32:35 PM (No. 420756)
No one has any faith anymore in the Expert Three; they've all been discredited.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/24/2020 2:32:59 PM (No. 420758)
These interviews with Birx or Fauci are now 100% orchestrated to get them talking in the confusing, having it all ways, CYA ways that DC bureaucrats expertly employ to muddy issues. Neither she not Fauci have a single new thing to add that is useful to the public at this point. WE know what is going on and WE are going back to church, family gatherings and work.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/24/2020 2:36:46 PM (No. 420762)
Yes, it is difficult to tell. That’s why we need a leader for such matters, not a “well it’s possible that”-“could be that”-“might happen that” egg head rear covering “scientist.”
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/24/2020 2:39:12 PM (No. 420763)
Put Birx and Fauci on a bus to Siberia with no stops.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/24/2020 2:43:25 PM (No. 420766)
It is NOT going to happen again. End of discussion on that topic.
NOT happening.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/24/2020 2:47:20 PM (No. 420773)
Quarantining sick people is one thing but it is quite another to lockdown healthy people for months and destroy the economy. Brix, Fauci, and Redfield unelected bureaucrats have caused this country great harm.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/24/2020 2:55:38 PM (No. 420786)
If the Chinese thought we would close every year with a new virus, they would be very pleased to help us get our wish.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 5/24/2020 2:56:37 PM (No. 420788)
I wish those old dinosaur bureaucrats would just shut up. I am so tired of Fauci and Birx opining ad nauseum on TV. Their knowledge and experience is close to 50 years old. What was their last pandemic??? Polio?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 5/24/2020 2:58:27 PM (No. 420789)
They try this again, it might be time to bring back militias. I'm trying to think of a cool name for one.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 5/24/2020 3:22:29 PM (No. 420811)
I didn't elect this person. I wonder why she thinks I care about her opinion.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/24/2020 3:22:45 PM (No. 420812)
curious .PDJT says these two stormed into the oval office& demanded a shut down. HEY Rosemary Woods , are there tapes ???
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 5/24/2020 3:23:22 PM (No. 420814)
I didn't elect this person. I do not acknowledge her control of my life.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/24/2020 3:33:12 PM (No. 420817)
It is no coincidence that the poorest countries around the world also have the most abysmal medical care in the world.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 5/24/2020 3:42:50 PM (No. 420821)
Fauci and Scarf should be arrested for what they have done.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Suzi 5/24/2020 3:44:22 PM (No. 420823)
While I personally will never self-quarantine again, I have lost all faith in the citizens being reasonable or acting in any rational manner. So, if they call for another shut down, I wouldn’t be surprised if people go along with it en mass.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/24/2020 3:51:03 PM (No. 420827)
All the 'scientists' and 'experts' have flip-flopped to both sides of this pandemic. The good thing is, I've chosen too go along with the scientists that I like. That means I can go outside, eat in restaurants and skip the miserable masks.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/24/2020 4:22:35 PM (No. 420840)
Just another example of the so-called mainstream (liberal) media splitting hairs between what President Trump said in one setting and what one of his advisors said in another setting. The media’s objective in doing that is to confuse and to panic the general public, as the Democrats and the fake media want to keep as many people as possible scared, and the country shutdown through the election which is not going to happen.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/24/2020 4:28:52 PM (No. 420845)
Ms. Scarves, it's not going to happen again. Your next move will be to a padded cell with duck tape across your big mouth.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/24/2020 4:31:55 PM (No. 420850)
Time for her to shut up. Likewise Fauci. They blew this call and blew the whole thing out of proportion from day one. As a result, millions of people have suffered unnecessarily, and practical successes in managing this disease have been ignored.
If you see an "expert" still talking about lockdowns, tell them to shut up. They're idiots.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/24/2020 5:47:40 PM (No. 420902)
We have replaced the masks, we now have plenty of breathing apparatus and tents set up, we know what we did wrong this time we have Hydrachloroquine and we know it works, we have learned thing we should take advantage of this hard learned education. We should be ready and be able to stay open. I might add that one thing we have learned is whatever happens do not be in a New York Care facility when Cuomo starts sending infected people back there.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 5/24/2020 7:54:48 PM (No. 420984)
I really wish I could believe 'it's never going to happen again' but ...........................
From something I read earlier, there was a statement, paraphrasing here, that essentially said -
They have tasted the power and witnessed how quickly and easily the masses can be cowered into giving up their freedoms, and to control literally everything in your life easily. Roads, churches,sporting events, travel of every kind to any place by any means, restaurants, any and all gathering places including open fields, beaches, shops, essentially YOUR LIFE, top to bottom and end to end with not so much as a whimper of protest, at lease not initially. All of this happened while people cheered from coast to coast and border to border that we were 'doing to the right thing' !!!!
'They' are not going to give up that power easily, quickly or soon. I fear that this will happen again and again and again. The 'reason(s)' for the loss of freedoms and house arrest and Lord only knows what other restriction will be different each time but the results and impact will be the same if not worse than this time.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
lana720 5/24/2020 8:26:39 PM (No. 421005)
Time to get the hook for Fauci, Birx, and the CDC guy.
This exercise is killing us! I can see maybe two weeks, but three months, and the lucky ones with red state governors.
I am. Rey concerned about the collateral damage of suicide, child And spousal abuse.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/24/2020 8:39:31 PM (No. 421020)
Close NYC, LA and maybe Chicago, but just leave the rest of us be. Personally, for her and Fauci's willful destruction using phony models, I want them run out of their profession, and maybe even to the point they lose their licenses. She really is showing her TDS. If Fauci is realizing all of a sudden that he and Birx went too far, she needs to grab a clue herself. I loathe her and her phony passive aggressive concern. She is only concerned with power.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
red1066 5/24/2020 8:46:09 PM (No. 421024)
Go ahead and try. I dare you. It will not end well for you or for those advocating doing so.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/25/2020 4:27:19 AM (No. 421163)
Well, Birx is showing her demonrat colors. She obviously goes along with the latest demonrat wish - close every business you can to ensure the economy tanks and put the blame squarely on President Trump so he doesn't get reelected. She should be fired along with her demonrat compatriot Fauchi the Fake who's nothing more than a researcher who funded the Chinese Lab to begin with and lied to the public.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
franq 5/25/2020 7:33:12 AM (No. 421237)
Strange aftershocks still. Went to Wally World yesterday for today's grill items. Store was well-stocked EXCEPT for TP. Probably about 20 packages total. Otherwise the entire aisle was bare. Walking in, I heard a guy say, "HMM, must be a record...more than 5 people without masks." We struck up a conversation; he was of the same opinion as me. His last remark was, "I won't live in fear."
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
4Justice 5/25/2020 8:50:51 AM (No. 421319)
NO! Sweden is doing just fine and so will we.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 5/25/2020 11:52:03 AM (No. 421543)
If they try again, it will be outright warfare.
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