‘We’re in deep s**t’: Ousted ‘whistleblower’ Dr. Shiny turns into new anti-Trump hero pinning blame on White Home

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Mainstream media has elevated Nationwide Institutes of Well being whistleblower Dr. Rick Shiny to heroic standing after his congressional testimony denounced Trump’s Covid-19 response as borderline criminally negligent.

Shiny, the director of the US Biomedical Superior Analysis and Improvement Authority (BARDA) till he was unceremoniously dismissed final month, painted a disturbing image of a authorities flying blindly into catastrophe on Thursday throughout his testimony on the administration’s Covid-19 response earlier than a subcommittee of the Home Committee on Vitality and Commerce.

Warning Congress that “the window is closing to handle” the outbreak that has killed tens of hundreds of Individuals and threatening the “darkest winter in trendy historical past” if his warnings continued to be ignored, Shiny was warmly embraced by Democrats on the committee. They readily lapped up his damning claims concerning the Trump administration’s well being coverage: failure to plan correctly for the Covid-19 outbreak, refusal to take his warnings about operating low on private protecting tools significantly, insistence on hyping hydroxychloroquine regardless of the absence of placebo-controlled research proving its efficacy in opposition to the virus.

“You’re an American hero,” Rep. George Butterfield (North Carolina) fawned, whereas New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone likened the fired vaccine professional to one in all John F. Kennedy’s “profiles in braveness.”

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Shiny filed a whistleblower criticism earlier this month alleging cronyism and an aversion to scientific rigor among the many political appointees operating the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), which supervises BARDA. He claimed he was fired over his unwillingness to advertise the malaria medicine chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as potential cures for Covid-19, in addition to his warnings concerning the nation’s quick inventory of medical provides.

HHS, nevertheless, had a scathing response prepared for Shiny’s claims, accusing him of colluding with “partisan attorneys” and spreading “misinformation” concerning the company.

Whereas Republicans on the committee tried to grill Shiny about his refusal to just accept hydroxychloroquine as a possible Covid-19 remedy, spotlight items lacking from his whistleblower criticism, and hint stockpile deficiencies into earlier presidential administrations, their voices have been largely drowned out.

The refrain of media and blue-check cheerleaders greeted Shiny’s testimony as gospel, and the scientist himself as a doomsday prophet.

Past deficiencies within the nationwide stockpile, Shiny additionally linked the administration’s failure to “educate” Individuals about carrying masks and social distancing months earlier than the pandemic arrived within the US to additional deaths.

In the end, Individuals could be doomed if the Trump administration didn’t begin listening to the scientists, Shiny warned, noting that even Trump’s much-vaunted “Warp Pace” vaccine initiative was doomed to failure.

Trump has dismissed Shiny as a “disgruntled worker,” whereas admitting he’d “by no means met him and even heard of him.” Well being and Human Providers secretary Alex Azar snarled that “his allegations don’t maintain water,” insisting “every little thing he’s complaining about was accomplished.” 

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