Yeah, y'all wonder why she didn't speak up but I'm starting to wonder if y'all knew just how corrupt this man was. Trump's base threatened the life of everyone that didn't do what he wanted. Maybe that's why? I mean, I get it. It's fun to dogpile and hate on people but damn. You sit here and ask why somebody would listen to trump if they didn't want to and there's a topic about the threats on Fauci's family's life. Y'all hate on this woman for being a coward but weren't y'all just talking about escaping America if Trump won?
I'm not saying she's blameless or excused but damn. It's not hard to see.
Not sure that analogy checks out at all. Also, Birx could have resigned citing threats. It's not like it was the Trump admin. itself threatening her life and forcing her to do things.
Not to mention her problem was just as much about what she did say as what she didn't.
Here she is at the end of March claiming Trump was attentive to the scientific literature and even managing to throw in a favorite among Trump lackeys: talking about how his supposed business acumen gives him a unique perspective or ability to look at data that has absolutely nothing the fuck to do with business (not to mention we all know he has always been a terrible businessman). Pure Trump sycophancy and appeasement.
Keep in mind this is when he had already spent weeks downplaying the virus, saying it's nothing, claiming it's about to go "down to zero", accusing it of being somehow a plot to damage his political career.
Beyond stroking Trump's ego, this had what I think you can reasonably assume is a tangible effect. Trump is telling people the virus will disappear "like a miracle", that it's basically nothing. Later, the top doctor on his taskforce tells however many millions of people see this clip that he really knows his shit and studies the science. Those people make what is admittedly a fairly logical conclusion: if Trump knows his shit and he says the virus will disappear, it'll disappear. If he's not at all concerned about masks or other mitigation measures, I shouldn't be either.
Birx decided to appease Trump and is arguably responsible for the deaths of people because of that decision. She has no excuses.