The nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to be the director of the National Institutes of Health is the single greatest case of poetic justice in my lifetime.

Jay, who holds both an MD as well as a PhD in economics, is a professor at Stanford University.

During the COVID years he had to endure the slings and arrows of mental and moral midgets who were unfit to shine his shoes.

He correctly spoke out against the useless and evil lockdown policy as well as much of the rest of the madness.

Now that it's obvious that none of those things did any good, and simply destroyed millions of lives for no good reason, some people are trying to pretend they never supported any of it.

But we remember the truth, and how those people behaved toward decent people and brilliant scientists like Jay.

Jay was smeared by Francis Collins, who was director of the very institution Jay will now direct, as a "fringe epidemiologist" because he correctly insisted that lockdowns were no part of any pandemic policy ever proposed anywhere. Collins has since admitted that his institution had major blind spots during COVID. But Jay wasn't blind. The mild-mannered Jay Bhattacharya, who never sought the spotlight but was forced into it by events, spoke the truth from day one, and for that he has the gratitude of all thinking people everywhere.