Those who predicted some sort of truth and reconciliation process after the COVIDcrisis response debacles, followed by a return to “normal” have been revealed as naive optimists. As for those of us who have been shouting from the back bench that the anointed academics, bureaucrats, pharmaceutical executives, political and financial overlords have all been lying to us, again and again and again, we are not to be allowed even a modicum of solace by being allowed to say “I told you so”. That is how deep the systemic corruption goes. Layers upon layers of interlocking liars and their lies.