Thread by @usnehal

@meganranney do you stand by “Birx became inextricably tied to the harmful decisions of her negligent, disastrously ignorant boss” in your @CNN defense of Dr. Birx?

Is this ageism & ableism cuz of “male-centered”
or is Birx’s female doctor brain capable of independent thought?

https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1242233642178482178

At what point will #WomenInMedicine and #womeninstem believe that women are full adults

who are responsible accountable for our own words?

I know it is soooooo scary to be around men 😱

and I guess some of us are so petrified we can’t figure out #SciComm ...as scientists?

The child-woman or wilting woman of smelling salts is a Western construct

Keep me out of your opinion, @meganranney - this minority & WOC holds Birx accountable as a scientist, physician, public servant, & woman who lost a >50 y/o mother to #COVID19

Survival?
My mother is dead

To every woman who put your CV ahead of lives of WOC

then think you can cite us
as your defense

back way from our mothers’ & grandmothers’ bodies

have a modicum of respect
at least do that “optics” thing you do
if you can’t muster integrity or accountability as #WomenInSTEM

@CNN this opinion was an atrocity & a slap in the face of communities of color who have lost loved ones

same “feminism” that contributed this ugly past of advancing some women
STILL leaves others behind
to die in a #pandemic

in a calculated, callous, inhumane way

“Reassuring”

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1267032439043567617

Yes, certain women are closing ranks to protect each other - this is a repeat of all of American history

“Good person” defense is SO classic. Right out of the playbook.

Sad for Dr. Birx? Why? She was “reassured” that ppl dying were >50 and with pre-existing conditions.

There are A LOT of words @meganranney devotes to distancing Dr. Birx from her *actual* ACTION & WORDS

Why are some women so allergic to ethics, accountability, being treated like sane, competent, reliable adults at work?

In fact: Birx’s ACTIONS harmed

sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/i…

This describes a know-it-all savior woman imposing their rule on black & brown people in other countries far from scrutiny - what DO we know of prior ethics & integrity?

Not knowing number of HIV cases in country & setting treatment target higher than cases?!?

What the heck

@meganranney & @Cnn is an ogre boss now forcing Dr. Birx to accept this private sector glorified lobbying position

to sell, to the feds

tech with such concern for safety (in a disease, asthma, worse in black communities)
it is banned in CA?

Is Birx still a hapless victim?

Even though I know the moral depravity of so called “women’s advancement” proponents (for some women only)

is not deliberately malicious

is just that utterly self obsessed that there is not ability to see anyone else

convinced in self as savior
as WOC die

pardon me if I

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to you too @meganranney - while you, @CNN and Dr. Birx may be “reassured” by who died this #pandemic, I am grieving one of those >500,000 deaths under Birx’s watch.

My mother is/was way too precious & ETHICAL to even belong in a thread with you all.