As N 2.0 shifts into full gear, it is time to remind everyone of Glenn Reynold’s December 30 op-ed in the New York Post titled, “We Must Make Public Health Authorities Accountable For Their Covid Lies.” Tattoo the headline on your forearm!

Reynolds graciously allows that honest mistakes are forgivable. Nobody’s perfect. Even pivots are okay, since you’re supposed to change your mind when you realize that you were wrong, in light of “new information.”

BUT, Reynolds says, lies and political manipulation are different. Those are a betrayal of trust, and they’re especially serious because trust is the public health community’s greatest asset, here here! Experts across the board have had a perfectly awful record during the pandemic, and according to Reynolds, now we need investigation and accountability, AMEN!

He mentions the summer protests (conducted by approved protestors), widely endorsed by “Wizard of OZ” like public health experts while they were still saying it was reckless and dangerous for regular folks to congregate, the “gain of function” flip-flop debacle, and that many “public health” scientists publicly encouraged Pfizer to slow-walk the release of its mRNA vaccine until after the election so that Trump couldn’t take the credit, for just a few examples.

Reynolds concluded saying it’s time for a rigorous investigation, like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) with subpoena power as it’s the only way to get to the bottom of how our public health authorities mismanaged this pandemic.

I’m in 1000% agreement! The experts (like Dr. Bonnie) will eventually be politically vulnerable. Since the politicians skillfully offloaded all the pandemic-response decisions to them, the public health experts are now primed to be thrown onto the culpability pyre as sacrificial lambs. In time the elected civil servants will turn to a new set of experts who’ll continue to unpack N 2.0. The old experts will become yesterday’s useful idiots, expendable and no longer be of value given that their expertise is now fully depleted at which point they will immediately become political liabilities.

When this time comes, let the words “lest we forget” ring in your ears!