Posted by admin | Posted in Public health | Posted on 14-08-2009
The government today issued a new public health alert, warning of the arrival of a pandemic even more depressing than the last one. “Just in case any of our citizens woke up this morning feeling chirpy,” said Health supremo, Joe Supremo (97), “we got together with supremos from the press and the Ministry of Panic to put together this new reason not to be. After all, this is a Democracy and nobody has a right to feel exempt from the gloom that is the birthright of every citizen.”
Mr Supremo went on to say that the government takes the new threat to the life of every man woman and child (and pet) on the planet so seriously, they are no longer calling it a “pandemic” but, at the suggestion of the press supremo, Craig Bi-Polar (46⅜), have renamed it a “carnagedemic.” [Editor's note: insert here photo of Labrador with bleak, haunted eyes, wearing a blue face mask. Caption: "Carnagedemic. All pets could die."] Mr Bi-Polar explained further: “An epidemic is rubbish, quite frankly. Doesn’t have the pizzaz it used to have. Read more...
Posted by admin | Posted in Public health | Posted on 09-08-2009
That government has become, to it’s shame, an appendage of the big corporations and is nowhere better evinced than the betrayal of the citizenry by those bureaucracies that purport to be safeguarding our health.
Nothing is done, for instance, about the pandemic of drug deaths resulting from prescriptions drugs. If a pandemic alert can be declared and the government galvanized to some sort of action, however batty, and great consternation and prophesies of doom leap out at us from the front pages of newspapers over Swine Flu for example, then why not the same level of concern over the deaths caused by prescription drugs?
As of November 17th, Swine Flu had claimed just over 8,000 lives worldwide, while over the previous 300 days, death by prescription drugs claimed nearly 49,000 lives – that is Six times as many deaths from prescription drugs as from the Swine Flu virus.
So, why the wailing and gnashing of teeth over Swine Flu on the part of the dangerously inept entities that presume to rule our lives, while prescription drug deaths raise apparently little concern, even though they expunged Six Times as many human beings in the past year? Read more...
