Trump takes COVID-19 vaccine victory lap, lashes out at Cuomo, and vows not to implement lockdown

President Trump stepped in front of the White House press for the first time in more than a week to celebrate news of a successful COVID-19 vaccine and promise that his administration will not impose another lockdown.

At a time when he is under pressure to concede election defeat to Joe Biden, his appearance in the White House rose garden amounted to a lap of honor for Operation Warp Speed, his administration s effort to get a vaccine to market in record time.

The operation meant that a vaccine had been produced in less than a year far faster than the ten to 12 years usually expected, he said.

No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly, he said. And we re very proud of it.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

I doubt Trump had much to do with Pfizer’s vaccine but the Dems still must be very sad it came as early as it did. The rooting interest they appear to be taking in the CCP virus (I like that funny name for the corona virus) is particularly appalling. So also is the denial of (some of) the “Science” by the Trump fans. Of course, it would be easier to credit the Science if so much of it was not self-promoting rubbish by some of the scientists, though most of them are not those actually working on vaccines.

It is odd, however, that if the GOP does hold the Senate, it will be in some senses a perfect solution to the problem of who should govern, or one hopes mostly not govern, in this divided country. Let’s hear it for the Framers and the separation of powers.