"I Knew These Vaccines Were Not Going To protect Against Infection."

Fox ran a remarkable interview with Dr Deborah Birx yesterday evening:

DR. BIRX: I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it's not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization. It will. But let's be very clear: 50% of the people who died from the Omicron surge were older, vaccinated. So that's why I'm saying even if you're vaccinated and boosted, if you're unvaccinated right now, the key is testing and Paxlovid. It's effective. It's a great antiviral.

Wait a moment. Wasn't it just this past January that the US Supreme Court blocked an OSHA order requiring 80 million workers to be vaccinated or lose their jobs? Haven't the US armed forces still been firing service members who don't get vaxxed, except that it's become abundantly clear that the vax doesn't work? But now Dr Birx says she knew about that all along.

And it turns out that the newest vademecum isn't to vax at all, it's something called Paxlovid. It's effective. It's a great antiviral. Well then. That'll sure work, huh? In fact, they're giving it to President Brandon as he powers through his 8+ hour workdays with the virus. By the way, how's he doing?

On Thursday, the White House announced that Biden had come down with COVID, and they gave out some information. The White House tried to stifle any questions about where Biden might have gotten the virus from, claiming that wasn’t important, even though one has to consider it for things like contact tracing and who he might have been in contact with. On top of that, what was very abnormal was that we weren’t hearing from Joe Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the person who is treating him.

Instead, they trotted out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, neither of whom is treating Joe Biden. Even the perpetually incurious, liberal White House media found this odd and asked why they were having to play “telephone” to get any information that was being fed through the White House. Why wasn’t the doctor speaking about Biden’s condition?

. . . Jean-Pierre shared that Biden said he was still working more than eight hours a day. . . . in the two days before his trip to Massachusetts earlier this week, he had nothing on his public schedule and the White House couldn’t give any real explanation for that other than to say that “he was in meetings.” Uh-huh. Given that he later came down with COVID, I wonder if he wasn’t feeling well at that point. But because they’re not straight with us, it’s harder to get at the truth.

Another story goes farther:

What is the Biden team trying to hide?

If Joe Biden has COVID, he should be doing all he can to rest and recover. Instead, his team is trying to convince us that everything is normal; they said he’s working an eight-hour day. Heck, I don’t think he worked an eight-hour day when he was well.

But he should be taking it easy and not working when he’s sick; he’s 79 years old. But they had him sitting up in a suit for a remote meeting and quite frankly, to me — who has been covering him for a while and is used to how he normally looks — he looked awful.

He looks like he’s not well, and out of it, not absorbing anything that’s being said; his eyes just have sort of a vacant look.

What's so unusual about that? But there's more. Vice President Harris joined in trhe comedy:

[E]very once in a while not even their minders can explain away something their bosses said and/or did, which brings me to the appearance Harris made Friday at the National Urban League annual conference.

As we previously reported, one of the first things Harris did when she walked onto the stage was to take her mask off and hug Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin, who was also maskless.

The problem with this is that Biden, as we all know, has COVID, and Harris is considered a “close contact” of Biden’s. Because of that, she is supposed to be masked when she’s around other people per the CDC’s guidlines, you know, the ones we common folks are supposed to follow according to them.

. . . Refreshingly, during the Friday press briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Biden COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha were grilled by multiple reporters as to why Harris wasn’t masked when the CDC very clearly says that she should be. . . . At one point he got so desperate he tried to bow out by saying he really couldn’t comment on something he hadn’t personally seen. He even looked to Jean-Pierre for assistance but she ended up deferring right back to him because she couldn’t explain it, either[.]

Nobody in the loop takes any of this COVID stuff seriously. Exactly why it fell on Dr Birx to announce the vax didn't work as they claimed is a bit puzzling -- she's been out of the government for more than a year and is warming a seat in a well-paid sinecure. I suppose it if were Dr Fauci who let the cat out of the bag, there'd be demands that he quit or be fired, but Dr Birx is already out.

Nevertheless, the whole charade is wobbling to a stop.