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trumplerlaw-blog · 5 years ago

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I’ll Get You Any Result You Like. What’s It Worth to You? Trump’s Grand Reopening of America Part 2

Dr. Deoborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, spoke again during President Trump's Thursday, March 26, 2020, daily Coronavirus Briefing. Some have argued that Dr. Birx' statements were misleading. Perhaps. I would not go so far as to say that. The words and data are meaningless unless put in a much broader context.

As I previously suggested it would, the data, as the Trump Administration is choosing to interpret it, lends credence to the idea that you can potentially reopen large swaths of the country without suffering massive casualties due to the virus.

Putting Dr. Birx' excellent news in context, Dr. Birx first briefed us Monday, the evening after 100 Americans lost their lives in a single night to the virus. She gave her Thursday presentation the same day the United States passed every other country in the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Keep your eye on the bouncing ball America.

Again, it is a little early to claim that you have any sort of meaningful data on the virus or what it is capable of inflicting on the entire population.

As I wrote Tuesday, March 24, 2020, the morning after Dr. Birx first spoke Monday night, "No one disagrees with the President about wanting to reopen the county. We would all love that. And it is not whether people are recovering from the virus or dying. The figure on the overall mortality rate is the red herring here. It has always been about the tax the virus will put on our health care system as a whole."

I suppose I should have thrown in; it is also not about the total number of cases or regional geographic disbursement.

As I also previously wrote, manipulating population data is not difficult to do. You can crunch the numbers to get them to say anything that you want. What Dr. Birx is saying is "truthful." It is the overall implications of what those figures mean relative to the crisis altogether. You must look at this unprecedented situation at the macro, not the micro-level.

Again, President Trump telegraphed this move to manipulate the population data projections the second he paraded Dr. Birx out on Monday. The thing that frustrates me the most is that people refuse to see "the grand illusion" based on political ideology or their desperate financial need.

What is evident to me and anyone who has ever worked in a toxic situation is that the President went to his people and said I want to "Reopen America" now! None of his scientific or medical advisors would back up this ridiculous notion.

At some point during a meeting or conversation, our hero Dr. Birx must have mentioned that the population data on the mortality rate, the spread of the virus, and regional disbursement looked promising. A fucking lawyer had to be in the room, who overheard this; after all, it is the White House. You cannot pee in the White House without getting it on a lawyer's shoes.

The lawyer, who overheard this presumably, then said, "Deborah, [because we in the Trump Administration do not use titles of respect, particularly with the ladies], would you be willing to speak publicly on a limited basis about what your population research shows? Let us [He then put his hand in a gentle but creepy way on her shoulder.] handle the implications. [It goes without saying, that he made sure to enunciate the word "implications" in a sexually suggestive way because this is my fantasy conversation and why the fuck not?] After all, we are the policymakers. [A snide way to suggest "people who matter."], and you are only a lady doctor in a scarf?"

Dr. Birx would be alone in the scientific community if she made a recommendation against social distancing. She is only there to parrot data. Despite her impressive credentials, that is her limited role. Having someone with her illustrious background regurgitate information is how you sell bullshit. Let "America's Magnificent Salesman" tell you what all of that science mumbo jumbo really means.

And in the immortal words of Childish Gambino (AKA Danny Glover of Lethal Weapon fame), This is America.

If you approach any problem with the answer in mind, you will always get the solution you want. I think English psychologist Peter Wason called this "confirmation bias."

I'll get you any result you want. What's it worth to you? Apparently, in President Trump's case, an awful lot.

Unfortunately, to borrow another song lyric, I've been to the movie, and I've seen how it ends.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/birx-spins-extraordinarily-low-numbers-of-coronavirus-cases/?fbclid=IwAR0UW6MyzuN-5-j0gxyDxjuggCs3TUneLLEqrfWohql-QOQP2bhbsuq5QbE

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