Not that I want to defend Birx, since I agree that she is amazingly incompetent. The problem, stated in terms from some movie I watched, is simple. Cutting off her head accomplishes almost nothing. We are not dealing with a single snake, nor are we really dealing with a hydra. We are dealing with a hydra of hydras at the leadership level. More importantly, and maybe more depressingly, we are also dealing with a large portion of society who agrees with them. If POTUS closes schools in the fall, it will be met with approval by many. Birx and pFauci and Gates and Trudeau and Johnson and... are symptoms, not causes, frankly.