Bet you anything if the UK develops a vaccine and saves the world our media will still call us pricks every day

This is how it'll play out if we make the vaccine

*Hancock calls briefing, says we've created world-saving vaccine*

BBC: Will you apologise for not creating it sooner?

ITV: Isn't it true that it contains dead kittens?

C4: Why didn't you join an EU vaccination scheme?

Sky: You said creating a vaccine would be difficult, do you now accept that you weren't telling the truth?

Buzzfeed: 37 reasons why the UK is still a shit country

Independent: Isn't it true that austerity stopped the vaccine being made sooner?

Guardian: Vaccines are racist

Then 12 days later, in what he thinks is a massive scoop, @Peston will tweet that his well-placed sources have informed him that a vaccine may be close