Hmmmm, looks like this Tweet from Emory University News on May 15th didn’t age well.

The smarty pants at Emory were sharing a cynical NBC News story, “Fact Check: Coronavirus Vaccine Could Come This Year, Trump Says. Experts Say He Needs A ‘Miracle’ To Be Right.”

The negative NBC piece was typical of the dismissive way the media - and so-called experts - treated Trump when he predicted there would be a vaccine before the end of 2020.

I’ve seen hilarious montages of TV talking heads mocking the president for his optimism last spring.

They preferred the “dark winter” candidates.

But by throwing almost $13 billion at the vaccine and reducing the red tape that usually complicates drug approvals, President Donald Trump did more to help end this pandemic than America’s current, unimaginative president-elect could ever do. 

As we’ve seen, Joe Biden’s “plan” to beat Covid consists of waving around a mask and insisting everyone wear one.

We’re wearing them, Joe. The virus is still spreading. 

I drove through 10 states and ducked into more truck stops than I can count last weekend and I can report that people everywhere are donning masks. Even in Missouri where there is no mandate. Even in the most rural reaches of the American midwest.

Masks and curfews and lockdowns won’t end the pandemic. A vaccine will. And it’s here, with the Army coordinating the logistics of distribution.

Think about it: The first case of Covid in the U.S. was detected on January 20, 2020 in the state of Washington. The first case in Virginia was reported on March 7th. 

By March 30, the Trump administration had launched Operation Warp Speed with an initial grant of $456 million to Johnson & Johnson.

The FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine last Friday night and healthcare workers at Sentra Norfolk General Hospital were being inoculated on Tuesday afternoon.

Breathtaking. 

Even Time Magazine expressed amazement: 

To be sure, the breakneck pace of COVID-19 vaccine development is a major accomplishment, given that such a process normally takes years—and certainly much credit goes to the Operation Warp Speed investments. To get a winning vaccine as fast as possible, the government placed wide-ranging bets, and secured 900 million doses between all six companies, which is more than enough for the U.S. population, assuming they all produce a winner.

This pandemic will end when a sizable percentage of the population has immunity to the virus, through infections and the vaccine. The Trump administration, with its unbridled determination, gave Americans and the rest of the world a dose of hope when all looked bleak.

Team Apocalypse hates hope. Even now, with a vaccine being distributed they’re predicting that we’ll be living with restrictions and masks indefinitely.

Will someone please tell them that’s gonna be a hard NO from many of us.

The media and Trump’s enemies in Washington gleefully denigrated the vaccine effort throughout the presidential campaign. When that didn’t work and it appeared that inoculations might actually be here in record time, they (Biden, Harris, Cuomo and others) insinuated the drug shouldn’t be trusted since the Trump administration was supporting it.

Nice work, naysayers. If massive numbers of Americans don’t get vaccinated, that’s on you.

This 10-month-to-market vaccine is a stunning achievement. Hate on Trump all you want, but without him there’d be no Covid-19 vaccine. Not In 2020, anyway. Probably not in 2021.

Sleeves are rolling up across the nation bringing us closer to the end this soul-sucking pandemic.

Call it what you want, I call it a Christmas miracle.