Well, what do you know, looks like Covid-19’s most polarizing figure, the smug little doctor who managed to convince two presidents to wreck the booming American economy, convinced governors to sentence nursing home residents to solitary confinement and who delighted the militant teachers unions by supporting keeping kids out of schools for two years, has  finally thrown in the towel.

About time.

And his date for a December departure is no accident.

Anthony Fauci knows what’s coming: A Republican House of Representatives and exhaustive hearings about his duplicitous roles in funding reckless gain-of-function research, his deliberate lies about the Covid vaccines, his support for the pointless torture of beagles for cruel experimentation and more. Much more.

Sure, Congress can still summon him as a private citizen to Capitol Hill, but by January Fauci will be 82. No doubt he’s hoping that with the aid of his loyal subjects in the corporate media,  he can make his adversaries look like bullies for picking on an old man.

Truth is, even in his dotage, Fauci was a flip-flopping publicity hound who coolly posed for magazine covers while his septuagenarian cohort languished in nursing homes, dying alone and afraid.

Doesn’t matter if he’s using an oxygen tank and driving a Jazzy by January, if the GOP gets the gavels members need to haul Fauci’s carcass to Congress and ask him the tough questions he should have been asked three years ago.

No one dared, because the defensive Dr. Fauci - and his pals in the media - quickly accused his detractors of being anti-science.

“So it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous. To me, that’s more dangerous than the slings and the arrows that get thrown at me. I’m not going to be around here forever, but science is going to be here forever. And if you damage science, you are doing something very detrimental to society long after I leave. And that’s what I worry about.”

I represent science. Oh, please.

The unabashed hubris and politicization of this creepy doctor who did so much damage to the country by blowing in the ears of two presidents was painful for the country and hard to watch.

So are the bouquets being tossed at his feet by the liberal laptop lockdown crowd.

There needs to be a reckoning for what was done to this country during the Covid pandemic.

Anthony Fauci is a good place to start.