H1N1 Swine Flu; UK Government covering their backs and capitulating to pharmaceutical lobbyists

'Plan' to vaccinate whole UK for flu is a knee-jerk reaction from a beseiged government and political system, with dubious strategic or tactical value!

In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent.

This is clearly a politically motivated ass-covering measure by the UK authorities, admitting defeat in the face of overwhelming odds.

It comes after the first British patient without underlying health problems died from the disease, taking the number of swine flu-linked deaths in the UK to 15.

Risk and Perspective
In reality the risk of dying from the influenza pandemic is very low. The number of casualties of this disease is also extremely low, especially if you consider the hundreds and thousands who die each year from smoking, diabetes and chronic heart disease. All of which are preventable. The greatest cause of death in the younger ages groups is still RTA's - Road Traffic Accidents.

The mis-use of NHS funds in the face of mis-diagnosed threat levels

Pharmaceutical donations

This move by the UK Government will further please the pharmaceutical companies and will bring a welcome boost to their dwindling profits. Hopefully, the political parties will, in return, be assured of increased funding and support in the coming years.