Anthony Fauci rightly gets a huge amount of blame and scorn for the ruinous, anti-scientific, fearmongering public policies he promoted during the worst of the Covid stupidity.
But perhaps even worse than him is Deborah Birx, his fellow infectious disease expert who helped lead the Trump White House, and the country, into its disastrous Covid response in early 2020.
Birx was among the most aggressive advocates of extremist interventions such as "social distancing," mass business closures, endless masking and untested vaccines. And all of that would be bad enough without her having been a clear and obvious hypocrite about it:
She eventually admitted that the government "overplayed" the effectiveness of the vaccines that she and everyone else demanded we take:
You would think someone with this kind of track record would be content to just retire in disgrace and never be seen in public again.
And yet.
And yet:
Deborah Birx says we must test every cow in America (on a weekly basis) for bird flu.
'We should be testing every cow, weekly,' Birx says adding, 'we could be pool testing every dairy worker.'
There are around 40 million cows in the United States.
"We should be testing [40 million cows] weekly," she says! Along with about three million dairy workers!
I mean it, folks: It's as if she doesn't remember the entire stupid, unscientific, disastrous Covid crisis that she helped engender (or maybe she just doesn't care):
We have the technology. The great thing about America is we're incredibly innovative and we have the ability to have these breakthroughs.
Uh huh. Can someone please explain to me how we "break through" and test 40 million cows every week — at least not without driving dairy up to ruinously high prices and wrecking one of the country's most important industries?
The response to this proposal is unsurprising. People don't forget.
This is all against the backdrop of the fact that the federal government has said it's safe to drink milk even as the bird flu virus has been found in samples:
Based on currently available information, the FDA says commercial milk is safe.
Commercially available milk is pasteurized, a process that kills harmful bacteria and viruses by heating milk to a specific temperature for a set period of time. The FDA noted the viral particles detected by highly sensitive qPCR tests were likely to have been remnants of viruses killed during the pasteurization process.
'To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe,' the agency said.
Sooo to sum it up, Deborah Birx is proposing an expensive and unnecessary viral response to something that doesn't sound like a major crisis or threat to public health?
I feel like I've heard this one before and I know how it ends.
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