“Doomsday virus” The clock is ticking!

As the UK prepares for another winter, in the back of my mind I think; is this the year! We have all heard the stories of the Spanish Flu in 1918, which killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide. And with modern day infrastructure and cheap flights across the globe, a new flu virus could spread fast, and wipe us out. Each year the number of Flu cases increase in the UK, and experts predict this winter to be the worse so far. There have been many news reports that the British government is stockpiling antiviral drugs, but do we really trust what they say? If the government are not worried about a flu pandemic occurring, then why stockpile antiviral drugs??

In 2004 World Health Organization experts advised governments’ around the world to stockpile flu drugs like Tamiflu, this antiviral drug would protect us in the event of an outbreak, “Or would it” the truth is that the same experts that advised governments around the world to stockpile the drugs, had financial ties to the companies that stood to profit from the sale of such drugs, and who footed the bill for all that crap, “What a surprise”, the British Tax payer.  The simple truth is that they want you to see and hear that they have antiviral drugs ready, so if anything happens we will be ok; but you won’t! Let’s say that a disease like bird flu combines with human flu, it would create a new lethal virus which could be easily passed between people, and spread at a very rapid rate. Public transport and infrastructure would give the virus a multitude of routes to spread the disease, and within 24 hours it would jump from continent to continent.  The UKs NHS service would be completely overwhelmed, and within a matter of days, critical systems would start to fall apart.  Now if all this sounds worrying to you, and I agree, it does, then why don’t the government try and make decent preparations, instead of giving us the same old rubbish; Cost to the tax payer, limited budget,  bla bla bla. It doesn’t matter what it cost, we bloody pay for it anyway!!! Its only a matter of time, not if, but when will the next big pandemic happen?