"Well, if it weren't for me, there wouldn't have been a pandemic"

[intrepidity]

"...and without the pandemic, there's no vaccine, so thank me for the vaccine."

Former guy could arguably make that claim.

But, even more realistically, he could legitimately claim that the speed of vaccine development--and I don't mean via the so-called warp speed thing--was a result of his actions (lack thereof), because, and this is true, very true: vaccines were produced in record time because there was such high infection rates in the population that the clinical trials reached their endpoints remarkably fast.

So yeah, go ahead and crow about how you helped to solve the problem that you created--even though the extent of your 'help' was simply in allowing the pandemic to get out of control. Hang that around your neck, Loser.