This is a live specimen, which can be studied, tested, examined, observed, and thoroughly analyzed to determine what caused her to behave this way. This was a bright, intelligent, woman---sharp enough to earn an MD---politically savvy enough to work to the top of her field---and still came under the spell of President Dinky. Exactly how does this "Twit in Chief" manage to turn otherwise seemingly sensible people, into Bubbleheaded Blubbering idiots, whose main goal seems to be the nauseating worship and relentless praise of this man-baby. NO, NO, NO She could be the start. The first specimen. The very horse's ass from which the intellectual serum could be derived! (think of the possibilities--just like Diphtheria--she could be the first step towards curing Trump induced Dipshitera)

Birx has been in the forefront of both HIV/AIDS research and containment and treatment for over 30 years, also other diseases. She is reportedly evangelical, and over those years she's spoken with religious groups who knows how many times to educate and help get them working on the right side.

Look, I'm sure she has faults (just like our too often devastatingly displayed ones), and being a top scientist and administrator whose work has saved millions of lives doesn't guarantee that she's entirely ethical or honest, or even rational, in nonscientific aspects of her life. (Again like all too human people here.)

But just the briefest search into her extremely impressive life would, one hopes, have substantially changed the tone of this OP. I found almost no mention of religion at all. But it does seem likely that her religion was a reason religious fanatic Pence chose her for this task force. The religious right has packed the Trump administration with their choices, and they have to be dealt with just as Trump does. Anyone who doesn't keep on their good side also will be fired.

Enabling Trump in killing Americans.

Not a toady.

by the Senate; she was sworn in April 4, 2014.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150325130200/http://www.pepfar.gov/press/releases/2014/224403.htm

Praising their anti-christ.

He was operating using norms and codes of conduct that were 50 years out of date -- like the redcoats who marched in orderly battlefield formations as they got ambushed and sniped from the bushes.

Mistake #1: the notion that a conservative's professionalism and intellectual seriousness will take precedence over their political religion and tribalism. That just doesn't happen anymore, even for conservatives in the hard sciences.

both for her and for what she's trying to do under extremely difficult conditions.

Just last night Tom Nichols of the War College said the job of experts is to speak truth to power BUT, that Trump has a long history of firing people who tell him what he doesn't want to hear. He recommended we discount that "ritualistic cant" Trump requires and evaluate based on what they say in their professional capacity. (Understanding that even Dr. Fauci has at times fudged his statements, quite badly sometimes, rather than directly contradict what Trump just said.)

This was on Brian Williams' show last night, which presented a theme from beginning to end of megalomania and irrationality, including Trump repeating insistently that he wanted the governors he was battling with to be "appreciative" to him.

Williams quipped pointedly that a clip he showed of Birx lauding Trump's business and scientific expertise was "translated from the original North Korean." And after that he asked Nichols, when "job 1 of those at the podium is to praise Dear Leader," if we should pay attention to anything anyone but Dr. Fauci said. And the answer was yes, that they were trying to manage the pandemic. And success in that requires somehow managing a disordered president.

if you could know that firing her would result in a failure that lead to your death?

Didn't think so.

You might want to consider that even if that is unlikely for you, it's not out of the realm of possibility for others. These epidemiologists are humiliating themselves as part of working and stressing themselves to exhaustion for a REASON. They're leading the federal pandemic response efforts in a government lead by what might as well be a madman. They're it inside the government and busy coordinating efforts as best they can with experts outside.

He is doing active harm, getting Americans killed NOW.

I really don't care about myself personally. I seriously don't.

But I do care about Trump killing others, which he's doing because HE'S BEING ENABLED!!!

And just look how much they selflessly achieved

they have to "manage" trump and his narcissism. It's a shame that they can't figure out a way to remove him, like getting his medical doctor to find a way to declare him unfit. Or maybe doing something more sinister.

That good enough for me. That she’s religious does not inspire me to hate her.

she could be worse. Seems to have some knowledge.