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Call me a cynic, but at the time of year when the sale of Turkey’s is just past its most lucrative, and then we have a supposed bird flu case, then the Health Minister Patricia Hewitt is on national television saying that just a week ago we had a bird flu type training excersize, giving us the “impression” that we are in “safe” hands, no need to panic, does it strike you as odd?
On the morning of 9/11 and 7/7, there were government anti-terror training excersizes.
We are being lured into an Orwellian nightmare.
funny that- Ive been undergoing, along with every emergency service, planning for a flu pandemic for the last 18 months- i guess at some point they’d be right
Fair point slayer, but does it strike you as odd that she said the government did an excersize just last week? Why didn’t she say like you, that weve had regular excersizies over the last 18 months?
What have you learnt?
scary scary stuff if it occurs in the way the worst case scenario- it reminded me of the Bubonic Plague where whole villages sealed themselves off from the world if one person was infected
Planning for every eventuality is difficult as so many different scenarios could occur and no one really knows exactly what will happen.
we are due a flu pandemic as the last one was 90 years ago
How will you medically defend yourself, then others?
:lol: :lol:
You don’t- in fact the public sector will bear the brunt of much of a pandemic as they are daily in contact with people who are ill, vulnerable or at risk. There nothing you can do except hope it doesnt happen to you
If the NHS lost a quarter to a third of its workforce- what do you think would happen? No nurses, no doctors, no cleaners etc- imagine then if the police lost a third of its workforce- what would happen to law and order? Really really quite disturbing
Mind you… if the BNP lost a third of its membership, nobody would really notice eh???
Now now PB, I was having a civiliased discussion with Emma
In all seriousness, it would be a prime opportunity for groups on the fringe of politics to really make a mark and gain some power.
@slayer wrote:
You don’t- in fact the public sector will bear the brunt of much of a pandemic as they are daily in contact with people who are ill, vulnerable or at risk. There nothing you can do except hope it doesnt happen to you
Ok, so this training that you’ve been doing over the last 18 months has been a waste of time?
@emmalush wrote:
@slayer wrote:
You don’t- in fact the public sector will bear the brunt of much of a pandemic as they are daily in contact with people who are ill, vulnerable or at risk. There nothing you can do except hope it doesnt happen to you
Ok, so this training that you’ve been doing over the last 18 months has been a waste of time?
No Emma, it teaches us how to put our lives on the line, with as minimal a risk as possible, to ensure those who need the emergency services will receive some form of assistance, however limited.
I go back to what I said though, ultimately you can take all the precautions you like, there is still a chance you will contract it so you the final piece of protection is hope and luck.
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