On a Panademic's Brink

With the initial outbreak of what appears to be the outbreak of a pandemic my thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their friends and families.
But tdo ry not to panic, because, four years ago, on 23rd February 2005, the WHO announced a bird flu pandemic was imminent. It never happened.

However, it does raise the question of the competence both of government and the NHS.

Following the WHO’s announcement on the expected bird flu pandemic, then like now, it was revealed that the NHS had failed to stock the necessary antiviral drugs to protect the population. Excuses were trotted out by the score and the lucrative £33m contract was handed out, in February 2006, to produce 3.5m doses of vaccine for the deadly H5N1 virus.

Yet today, three years later, it is revealed that the NHS has insufficient face masks to protect our frontline medical staff, and once again is scrabbling around attempting to procure supplies, but disgustingly, the government’s spin machine is already in action, releasing articles suggesting that face masks were really a waste of time; the inference being ,that not having them available was no big deal.

I would wager a month's wages that no one in government, or their families, will be seen not wearing one if the pandemic takes place.

Gordon Brown must take full responsibility for the failure to ensure the NHS has adequate supplies of drugs and face masks. He controlled the budget.

Brown it was who dictated what amount of money could be spent and upon what. He is dysfunctional in his ability to relate to those he elected himself to rule, not serve.

His obsession with creating a Global government, The New World Order, has brought Great Britain to its knees. Incapable of holding a reasonable debate, he has adopted the Stalinist principle of giving orders to be obeyed.

This anti democratic charlaton was originally elected, alongside the liar, Tony Blair, pledging a new deal for the disillusioned electorate - an honest and open government. He lied his way into office and the lies have never stopped.