Swine flu ‘cannot be contained’
Posted by michael on July 2, 2009
The government has acknowledged that trying to contain the virus is no longer an option.
In other words their attempts to contain the virus has failed. The measure of the failure is that there are currently around 3000 cases of swine flu in the UK but they expect that there may soon be up to 100,000 new cases a day.
Quote from our Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
The UK is one of the best prepared countries to deal with swine flu and “all action necessary” will be taken to stop its spread (april 2009).
The health secretary said UK preparations had been going on for the last five years to cope with a flu pandemic. He added:
the government proposed to use its stockpile of anti-viral drugs to treat patients showing symptoms of the disease, should the virus start spreading in the UK.
I don’t have any confidence at all in any of the utterances of our government of any of their plans or policies. Nothing they do seems to work, certainly not without having to be reworked!
So the fact that New Labour have failed to contain the swineflu outbreak is not a surprise to me. The fact that we have stockpiled anti-viral drugs which do not appear to have worked against the swineflu virus, is also not a surprise to me!
