Wonder what you make of the news that the BBC has been “stockpiling” thousands of doses of the swine flu drug Tamiflu? About 4,000 doses of the Tamiflu drug have been bought by the corporation. I rather agree with Scottish Tory public health spokesman Jackson Carlaw who has said that : “It is nothing short of disgraceful that a licence payer funded body is storing away an antiviral which is free on the NHS.”
SWINE FLU AND BBC TROUGHERY
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What are they storing it for? It's only of use once someone has Swine Flu and then it only is effective a bit.
They need to stay alive so they can extract the license fee from the estates of those who perished.
Posthumous Licensing.
If the BBC relied on NHS stocks to immunise its foreign correspondents who may come in to contact with the virus while reporting overseas, you'd also be complaining, no doubt.
We all have to take our chances – with the NHS. If its good enough for its viewers it should be good enough for the BBC.
Swineflu is being used by newlabour now to excuse the long denied coming further slump in GDP/economy, newlabour has long flogged the idea that somehow the economy will bounce back into positive figures in the second half of the year, as usual their fantasy island figures have always been…er..rose tinted and proved wrong but now heaven sent swineflu is being flogged as a reason for the continuing slide into economic oblivion, the BBC/newlabour assholes will claim that if wasnt for the outbreak then the economy would be powering ahead etc.
Any excuse from the masters of the excuse brought to you live by the BBC.
Partially correct Cassandra, but swine flu will also be used as the excuse to put off a general election. This tactic was trialled by Tony Blair and as we all acquiesced then, why should we react differently this time?
Without wishing to sound like Dr Death, Swine-flu is saving the NHS a fortune.
It is bumping off patients with "underlying medical problems" That's a euphemism for "people who cost a fortune to treat". Babies born three months early cost £1500 a day to care for in neonatal ITU, and many of them emerge permanently damaged and require lifetime care.
People in their last year of life are the next most expensive to care for. Nursing home beds are being freed up for others that need them. We none of us live forever.Swine flu is giving some already on their way out a nudge.
There are virtually no deaths associated with normal healthy people.These are the ones who pay for the NHS but thankfully make little use of it.
We've got to keep the factory which mass produces rubbish like Eastenders, Casualty and all the rest of the BBC's trash up and running during the swine flu alert.
For once the BBC's rubbish could serve a useful social purpose by keeping people glued to their TV screens rather than going out and enjoying the summer.
Gosh, imagine how awful it would be if Alan Yentob got ill!!!!! Or Thompson??!!! Or Sarah "Thicko" Montagu????!!! Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
Actually, a cull of Beeboids might be the only bright spark of the global pandemic.
Re: Scott M
“If the BBC relied on NHS stocks to immunise its foreign correspondents who may come in to contact with the virus while reporting overseas, you'd also be complaining…”
Just a couple of points Scott…
1. Tamiflu does not immunise the recipient from Swine Flu. Indeed, it is only prescribed to patients who already have the virus.
2. How many foreign correspondents does the BBC claim to have? And given that not all of these reporters will catch the virus (the WHO worst case scenario predicts a 30-40% infection rate) why was it necessary to purchase 4,000 doses? This inflated figure suggests an ulterior motive i.e. that the BBC plan to use this drug for some of its British staff.
Interesting take by Old Holborn on swine flu –
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-swine-flu-selective.html