This really is beginning to get a bit silly.
Over the last few months we had a series of bad news stories from the predictable economic crisis, through devastating asteroid impact warnings and now we’re on to death by influenza epidemics. Oh, and the imminent threat of global warming lurking around the the background.
The swine flu thing lurched into view over the weekend and is now at maximum hysteria mode, with all the papers covering it, and the tabloids (as expected) predicting the end of civilisation as we know it. Right.
Leaves you wondering if someone is trying to divert our attention from something else that’s important, but not nearly as exciting.
I wonder if the government is trying to bury some ‘bad news’ somewhere..?
If the government can afford to leaflet every house in the UK with flu warnings that are nothing more than common sense and common knowledge, then they must have money to burn.
It rather undermines all of these tales about global recession…..