Feeling festive, people?

Jingle bells, jingle bells! Rejoice, for the Annual Panic over the yet-to-happen flu pandemic is in its early stages, which means that Christmas is juuust around the corner. From the Guardian:

The health secretary, Alan Johnson, yesterday announced a dramatic increase in plans to combat pandemic flu, committing the government to buying enough drugs to treat half the UK's population.

Here we go again.

Next week there will be a topical question in the House hinting that there ain't gonna be enough drugs to go around. Johnson will appeal for calm as the population legs it to the nearest quack demanding innoculation, resulting in a shortage of the required drugs as doctors use up all their supplies.

Panic and outrage will follow, as the Opposition parties will trot out the favoured phrases relating to the Department of Health's predicament ... pandemic ... not fit for purpose ... blood on their hands ... et cetera.

Then everybody will wait on tenterhooks for the pandemic to pitch up, until the rough winds which shake the darling buds of May arrive and it's all forgotten about until Christmas 2008 approaches.

Then we start again.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 23 Nov 2007 1:01 PM. There are 2 comments so far. Permalink