The octogenarian, retired technocrat and de facto head of America’s Covid response, is back hugging the limelight after years of quietude. Yes Fauci, the vainest of men, disabled a whole generation of school-goers by locking schools. Yes, he lied that Covid came from bats in a wet market rather than a leak from a lab. To believe Lancet the Covid generation lacked the stoicism of bygone eras that met more deadly pandemics without fuss and bother. Was that why Covid controllers turned cartwheels in order to scapegoat inanimate Covid.