Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Bootiful Bird Flu and Doctors with guns


With the furore in the UK over the confirmed bird flu infection of the Bernard Matthews plant in Suffolk, meetings have been held to plan for a possible pandemic in humans.
This all reminds me of the 1970's sci-fi series "Survivor" where a biological weapon is released accidentally in Britain sending us back into the Dark Ages. I remember that the first thing you needed to get was a shotgun and shells to fend off the marauding gangs, then a Landrover and lots of diesel and tinned food. Finally you have to wear big Arran sweaters all the time.
What is being predicted is that 50% cases will need intensive care and ventilators and conservative estimates are of 200,000 extra cases over the normal need for ICU facilities. People will have to be turned away. On top of this is the fear that up to 40% staff will stay away from work, crippling support services and abilit to treat.
Finally the suggestion that we will need guns to defend the hospitals from angry mobs.
Not media scare-mongering at all!
Anyway that's enough for now I'm off to get my Purdey shotgun and some Arran sweaters!

1 comment:

Holy Soldier said...

Interesting.