Posted on 12/03/2021 4:17:44 PM PST by absalom01
A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America, by Scott W. Atlas
How could public officials vowing to “follow the science” on Covid-19 persist in promoting ineffective strategies with terrible consequences? In a memoir of his time on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Scott W. Atlas provides an answer: because the nation’s governance was hijacked by three bureaucrats with scant interest in scientific research or debate—and no concern for the calamitous effects of their edicts.
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A veteran medical researcher and health-policy analyst at the Hoover Institution, Atlas, a radiologist, joined the Task Force six months into the pandemic, after he had published estimates that lockdowns could ultimately prove more deadly than Covid.
... he found that the Task Force included “zero public health policy experts and no experts with medical knowledge who also analyzed economic, social, and other broad public health impacts other than the infection itself.” Vice President Mike Pence chaired the Task Force, but Atlas says that Pence and the other members were regularly cowed into submission by three doctors who dominated from the start: Deborah Birx, the Task Force’s coordinator, along with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control.
Atlas calls them “the troika” because of their strategy for presenting a united front, never disagreeing with one another during the meetings in the White House Situation Room. (Reporting later revealed that they had made a pact to resign in unison if any of them was fired.) ...
The troika stoked more needless fears during the Covid pandemic, continually emphasizing worst-case scenarios—the computer models, for example, that wrongly forecast millions of American deaths in the summer of 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Have not read the book yet, but it seems promising.
They are scientist that learn nothing from the last experiment, except to ask for more funding!!!
Their job was to advise the President and protect the citizens of this nation, but they had an agreement to all quit if one was fired?
They sound like real public servants to me.
They act like they are part of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
Well, that’s what they are.
Interesting to see this detailed in the press. Will read Atlas book for the rest of the dirt, but that’s the essence of it, I’m sure. They had their own agenda, and protecting actual people wasn’t on that agenda.
I am finishing RFK Jr’s book and next up is Pandemia. Navarro’s book is a must read. I may queue up this one after Pandemia.
Crazy times!
Description: "Megyn Kelly is joined by Dr. Scott Atlas, former Trump administration COVID advisor and author of "A Plague Upon Our House," Robert Barnes, Kyle Rittenhouse's former civil attorney, and Dan Abrams, SiriusXM host and founder of the Law&Crime Network, to talk about the reality of the cost of lockdowns, how Atlas tried to undo COVID damage of Fauci and Birx, the need to have "focused protection," the science on masks, the latest on vaccine mandates, whether boosters are necessary, the importance of weighing risk tolerance with COVID, how the media smeared Dr. Atlas, the key video quality question in the Rittenhouse trial, MSNBC getting banned from the Rittenhouse trial courtroom after a producer followed the jury bus, and more."
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