I see that the panic mongers want to immunise the whole population against swine flu.
THE entire UK population is to be vaccinated against swine flu following the death of the first healthy British patient.
The NHS will receive the new vaccine in the next few weeks and is expected to fast-track the drug through regulatory approval within five days.
That’s sixty million people. The logistics alone make the plan absurd. Then there’s the little matter of whether there is, indeed, a pandemic. Flu happens. Usually in winter. Any thoughts on plan accordingly, anyone? Sometimes people die, either from the illness or from complications caused by underlying health conditions. Shit happens. We all die sometime and for some, it will be flu that carries them off. That does not mean that we all need to have a jab – as flu is normally an inconvenience, not a killer.
Ah, but, it’s the inconvenience that is the issue, it seems:
He stressed the reason public vaccination was taking place was not because the virus was perceived as a killer but that society could not cope with a high percentage of the population off work ill. The jabs would also reduce the number of people who require hospitalisation.
Really? So we’re all going to get swine flu at the same time, just as we all got CJD, SARS and bird flu…
Fortunately, I do not live in the UK anymore, so will be spared the nonsense. Not that I would have gone meekly along to my GP’s surgery for a jab anyway. What, I wonder, will be the plan for the refusniks?
The Jobbing Doctor has another theory on why they wish to do this:
http://thejobbingdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-all-love-tamiflu.html
Oh, ho! Indeed. Personally, when I get the flu, I take paracetamol, plenty of fluids and sleep it off. I’ll do the same again if I get unlucky with this one.
I reckon they’re just buying off the 456 (where’s Torchwood when you need them?).
“That’s sixty million people. The logistics alone make the plan absurd. “
Especially when the NHS delivers outcomes like this: “We did go to hospital, where they were terribly nice but made me wear a face mask – it turns out you can’t actually breathe through them. Once they’d ruled out meningitis, I got a prescription for Tamiflu and a cocktail of painkillers, but when my partner tried to get it fulfilled, he discovered it’s not so easy to find a chemist with Tamiflu in stock, even in London, and it can’t be on the same prescription as any other drugs. “You can have the Tamiflu or the painkillers,” they told him. “Choose one.” Back to the hospital that we were never supposed to have visited in the first place, then.”
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