This past Sunday, Jack Tapper, host of CNN, state of the Union show, interviewed Dr.

Fouchi, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fouchi told Tapper

that even if a vaccine for the coronavirus is brought to market and widely distributed, we cannot

abandon fundamental public health measures. So even if you get the vaccine, you're going to have

to keep wearing a mask and you're going to have to keep hunkering down. That's because even with

a 90 to 95% rate of effectiveness, people who take the vaccine won't necessarily know how

effectiveness is for them. After hearing that gloom and doom assessment from Dr. Fouchi,

Dr. Tapper had a diagnosis of his own. He declared that Christmas probably not going to be possible

this year. So just like that, on CNN, Christmas is over before it even gets started.

Well, I have a prediction for you, Jacob Paul Tapper, despite what you may hope, there will be a

Christmas this year, at least at my house and next year and every year that human beings continue

to populate the earth. Neither the coronavirus nor CNN or any other plague is going to stop people

from celebrating one of the holiest and most treasured days of their lives. And Jake, there is a

single Grinch-like journalist who can ever stop Christmas. You don't have that kind of power and

that you never will. Sorry.