Well our ignorant politicians have done it again! All the fuss that was made about the 'swine flu pandemic' and how it was going to cause hundreds of deaths in the UK has all come to nothing.
They spent millions on 'swine flu' jabs and Tami flu doses that weren't really needed and as the vaccine will be totally ineffective if another strain of flu develops next year, as it will, they have wasted our money.
Every household received a leaflet telling us what to do if we displayed symptoms and newpapers carried full page adverts too so all that money has been wasted unnecessarily when it could have been put into the NHS.
We had a similar situation with bird flu, but at least on that occasion we weren't bombarded with leaflets and those of us with compromised immune systems weren't summoned to our local surgery to be used as pincushions! On that occasion it was DEFRA getting up the noses of farmers and smallholders.
The problem with politicians is they don't trust scientists to do their jobs properly and they most certainly do not have scientific brains themselves. All they do is cause panic in the hope that if the worst case scenario happens, then they will be able to say that their 'quick' actions helped to prevent hundreds of deaths (particularly important as this is an election year).
Instead, the whole thing has fizzled out quietly as these things do and I'm quite sure we have heard the end of this latest 'serious pandemic'!
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