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Hydroxychloroquine and This Guy Bright
There’s a lot more to Rick Bright’s testimony before a Democrat committee and appearance on “60 Minutes†than his “whistleblower†posture would suggest.
by Scott McKay
May 19, 2020, 12:03 AM
Last week a big deal was made, in some of the Usual Suspect media outlets, of congressional testimony by a Dr. Rick Bright, who until not too long ago headed something called the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). Bright, who has been recently reassigned to another position within the National Institutes of Health, thundered away Thursday at the Trump administration in a fashion that has already landed him a 60 Minutes segment and will almost assuredly result in a book deal and later a movie, perhaps starring someone like Mark Ruffalo as Bright, with the usual tired plot.
You’ve seen the movie before, and Bright’s story is nothing new. There is some external threat, and there is a lone good guy amid an entire government full of crooks, buffoons, and sycophants who raises the alarm about the external threat, but the lone good guy is punished and excluded for telling the truth because some evil, usually conservative, power — in this case President Trump — has his thumb on the scale.
Bright was demoted but didn’t lose his job, and it seems a bit more likely that his demise as the head of BARDA, which is an office in charge of the country’s medical stockpile and vaccine supply, had more to do with personality conflicts and office politics than any of the black-helicopter stuff that played out on C-SPAN last week. That doesn’t make him entirely a nut case. There’s always some middle ground where reality lies.
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