Swine Flu
Experts have said the number of new cases should continue to fall while schools and universities are on their summer holidays.
Hold on, the government said just before the end of term that there would be no benefit by closing schools because pupils would be exposed to swine flu regardless.
This troughing parliarment cannot be trusted to handle any crisis even though they seem to like to portray themselves as the only thing standing between the electorate and certain doom. And don't they like to have something to frighten us with?
Mis-diagnosed cases of swine flu have made me wonder how many people will suffer because some bright spark decided that only diagnosis over the phone is acceptable and only Tamiflu can help. Everyone I know who has been ill recently has or would have been prescribed Tamiflu. My own four year old fit the criteria on the Tuesday afternoon but with wet face cloths and paracetemol didn't qualify for Tamiflu on the Wednesday morning.
I want to know if the decision to have a hotline and website had anything to do with the fact that the manufacturer says that to be effective Tamiflu has to be taken within 48 hours after first falling ill? Almost a case of someone deciding that they had to find the most efficient way to prescribe Tamiflu rather than offering the best possible treatment for everyone. Did they forget that people will still get ill with all sorts of illnesses and even Swine Flu might be pipped to the post by something 'ordinary'.
Can these over fed, over paid clowns in Government get anything other than their expenses system right?
Hold on, the government said just before the end of term that there would be no benefit by closing schools because pupils would be exposed to swine flu regardless.
This troughing parliarment cannot be trusted to handle any crisis even though they seem to like to portray themselves as the only thing standing between the electorate and certain doom. And don't they like to have something to frighten us with?
Mis-diagnosed cases of swine flu have made me wonder how many people will suffer because some bright spark decided that only diagnosis over the phone is acceptable and only Tamiflu can help. Everyone I know who has been ill recently has or would have been prescribed Tamiflu. My own four year old fit the criteria on the Tuesday afternoon but with wet face cloths and paracetemol didn't qualify for Tamiflu on the Wednesday morning.
I want to know if the decision to have a hotline and website had anything to do with the fact that the manufacturer says that to be effective Tamiflu has to be taken within 48 hours after first falling ill? Almost a case of someone deciding that they had to find the most efficient way to prescribe Tamiflu rather than offering the best possible treatment for everyone. Did they forget that people will still get ill with all sorts of illnesses and even Swine Flu might be pipped to the post by something 'ordinary'.
Can these over fed, over paid clowns in Government get anything other than their expenses system right?
posted by Mr Insignificant at 5:24 pm
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