Everyone is supposed to be taken aback at the brazen hypocrisy of Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House health official after it was reported that she hasn’t quite been a saint in following the administration’s own guidance on limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, everyone should be relieved.
No one is doing everything right, and the people who say they are, are lying.
Even the media’s little angel Dr. Anthony Fauci isn’t doing the ideal, which is literally to stay home and come in contact with no one as long as possible. I hate to spoil his immaculate image but posing for the glossy covers of InStyle, the Washingtonian, and People isn’t the best example of “social distancing.” Photoshoots require travel for someone.
The Associated Press reported over the weekend that Birx, who has never been adored by the media like Fauci, had violated her own advisement against holiday travel and of having indoor gatherings with extended family members.
Yeah, it’s not a good look, just as it wasn’t a good look for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to go maskless to a California salon that wasn’t even legally allowed to operate.
This is why the scolds and schoolmarms need to shut up. Scrutiny of any given person would reveal that they, in some way, big or small, have done something that risks contracting or spreading the highly contagious coronavirus.
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle recently said she caught the virus, despite her laughable insistence that she did “all the right things.” I don’t doubt that she took precautions, but she would not have gotten the virus if she had done “all the right things.” No one is doing “all the right things.”
And, as much as journalists and cable news hosts enjoy feeling morally superior by shaming anyone who dares to take a flight or visit a loved one, it’s not that serious. Traveling and family gatherings come with personal risk assessment. Everyone else can mind their own business.
