In response to Fandango’s Who Won the Week posts, I have been looking at my own newsfeeds.
It has started.
My winner this week is simply France. I wanted to mention Agnès Buzyn. Never heard of her? Let me explain.
The 58-year-old Buzyn was the Health Minister in France just eighteen months ago. She stepped down in February 2020, to run in the Paris mayoral election.
February 2020 seems rather convenient, in terms of COVID, doesn’t it? But if you remember, there was lots of talk about governments everywhere having the measure of COVID, months before the pandemic, and wilfully looking the other way.
Buzyn herself publicly described COVID as “low risk”, although she also admitted later that she knew a “tsunami” was about to happen.
It’s one of the first cases where a public official is actually facing accountability for their action/inaction. In Buzyn’s case, French prosecutors are investigating her for the very wide charge of “endangering the lives of others”.
Let’s hope many more are forced to account for themselves.
Mister Bump 
Slam. In the profession of Health Minister, I dare say, it is more prudent to err on the side of caution as far as contagious diseases go.
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I suspect a lot of people will be “found out” in the next year or so. The trouble is, many of them have already left office.
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