{"id":1143057,"date":"2021-12-22T17:19:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143057"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T22:19:55","slug":"i-cant-be-part-of-this-private-emails-reveal-dr-birx-balked-at-trump-pressers-over-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-cant-be-part-of-this-private-emails-reveal-dr-birx-balked-at-trump-pressers-over-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Can\u2019t Be Part Of This\u2019: Private Emails Reveal Dr. Birx Balked At Trump Pressers Over Herd Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-cant-be-part-of-this-private-emails-reveal-dr-birx-balked-at-trump-pressers-over-herd-immunity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An email included in a recent dump from the House Select Committee revealed that Dr. Deborah Birx, who served on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Coronavirus Task Force, had serious reservations about some of the positions the White House wanted to explore at the time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Wow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8EaVOA2TbL\">https:\/\/t.co\/8EaVOA2TbL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e82C51ZCqQ\">pic.twitter.com\/e82C51ZCqQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mattathias Schwartz (@Schwartzesque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schwartzesque\/status\/1473358574285991938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t be part of this with these people who believe in herd immunity and believe we are fine with only protecting the 1.5M Americans in LTCF and not the 80M + with co-morbidities in the populations included the unacceptable death toll among Native Americans, Hispanics and Blacks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/birx-suggests-trump-secretly-fed-covid-data-carson-i-never-saw-that-people-finding-ways-to-stir-up-the-problems\/\">Birx<\/a> wrote in an email dated August 25, 2020 \u2014 which was sent to former CDC Director Robert Redfield, former FDA Director Stephen Hahn, as well as former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s chief of staff Marc Short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our current mitigation scenario we end up near 300K by Christmas and 500K by the time we have vaccine \u2013 close to the 600K live lost with 1918 Flu,\u201d Birx continued. \u201cWe have worked to find a path that is the least disruptive to the economy but moves us under R1 and saves both the economy and American lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/birx-after-breaking-own-covid-guidance-my-parents-were-depressed-and-isolated\/\">Birx<\/a> then noted that part of the reason Americans needed to take measures such as wearing face masks and social distancing was the fact that obesity was a bigger problem in the United States than in places like <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/swedens-king-denounces-countrys-relaxed-covid-19-measures-we-have-failed\/\">Sweden<\/a>, where such measures had been relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout masks and social distancing in public and homes we end up with twice as many deaths \u2013 we are a very unhealthy nation with a lot of obesity etc \u2014 we will never look as good as even Sweden due to our co-morbidities,\u201d Birx explained. \u201cThese are people who believe that all the curves are predetermined and mitigation is irrelevant \u2013 they are a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birx went on to say that she was even willing to add an out-of-town trip to her schedule to give the White House cover for the fact that she would not be part of such a briefing if the focus was on herd immunity rather than mitigating measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover for Weds. Perhaps do Annapolis and meet with Hogan. Fauci and I could probably do it together \u2014 I am open to options,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The event Birx was declining to participate in was touted as a \u201cmedical experts roundtable\u201d and was set to feature remarks from Dr. Scott Atlas.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Birx is declining to participate in this event <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s339lDyOaD\">pic.twitter.com\/s339lDyOaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mattathias Schwartz (@Schwartzesque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schwartzesque\/status\/1473359207848202240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the email, prior to introducing Atlas as the featured speaker, Trump was going to stress the importance of sheltering those who were most vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 while allowing the economy to reopen and those who were less vulnerable to get back to work and school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some politicians who are calling for unending lockdowns,\u201d Trump was slated to say. \u201cThat is not a science-based approach \u2014 and it would inflict grave harm on our children and our entire society. Our strategy is not based on fear but the facts, the science, and the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email included in a recent dump from the House Select Committee revealed that Dr. Deborah Birx, who served on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Coronavirus Task Force, had serious reservations about some of the positions the White House wanted to explore at the time. Wow. https:\/\/t.co\/8EaVOA2TbL pic.twitter.com\/e82C51ZCqQ \u2014 Mattathias Schwartz (@Schwartzesque) December 21, 2021 \u201cI &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}