{"id":6773,"date":"2020-03-30T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:18:24","slug":"dr-deborah-birx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/dr-deborah-birx\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Deborah Birx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this crisis began, I\u2019ve spent an inordinate amount of time watching \u201cthe bitch in scarves\u201d \u2013 and you all know who I mean.&nbsp; She\u2019s that chick who looks like <strong>Michael Learned <\/strong>wearing a different scarf at each of Trump\u2019s press conferences.&nbsp; Occasionally she adds a broach.&nbsp; So, I decided to find out who she is.&nbsp; Her name is <strong>Dr. Deborah Birx<\/strong>, and several outlets claim that her maternal fashion choices are comforting us.&nbsp; I dunno about you, but <strong>Big Mama Masters <\/strong>rarely rocked a scarf \u2013 and never a broach!&nbsp; Digging into her background more, <em>The Guardian<\/em> of London says, \u201cShe\u2019s a legend in the fight against HIV.&nbsp; Now Dr. Deborah Birx is taking on Covid-19\u201d.&nbsp; Turns out Dr. Birx was an army physician in the \u201880s when people started dying of what would eventually be called HIV.&nbsp; After losing a growing number of patients, she dedicated herself to stopping the virus.&nbsp; <strong>President Obama <\/strong>named her <em>US Global AIDS Coordinator<\/em>.&nbsp; She is currently the <em>White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator<\/em>.&nbsp; I dunno about you, but that actually does give me comfort \u2013 a helluva lot more than those damn scarves.&nbsp; When they make the inevitable movie about these harrowing days, I am sure <strong>Meryl Streep <\/strong>will play Dr. Birx.&nbsp; Perhaps <strong>Dr. Fauci <\/strong>could be played by <strong>Peter Dinklage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this crisis began, I\u2019ve spent an inordinate amount of time watching \u201cthe bitch in scarves\u201d \u2013 and you all know who I mean.&nbsp; She\u2019s that chick who looks like Michael Learned wearing a different scarf at each of Trump\u2019s press conferences.&nbsp; Occasionally she adds a broach.&nbsp; So, I decided to find out who she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6774,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/6774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}