Post of the day

I’ve been resisting doing the whole list of must read post things for a while now but The Salted Slug is talking far too much sense to not bring it to everyone’s attention. So for my inaugral “must read” post list: The Salted Slug reveals the real power behind the governments.

Thier lack of faith is disturbing…

Via Archbishop Cranmer I discover that Roman Catholic bishops in New Zealand are to introduce swine flu precautions, though they don’t seem to have gone as far as Patrick O’Donoghue, the Bishop of Lancaster. As a very lapsed papist I find their lack of both faith and any trace of common sense quite disturbing. Reportedly the Bishops are : stopping parishioners receiving communion wafers on the tongue, communion wine from the chalice and from shaking hands at the sign of peace at masses in New Zealand. Now apart from the odd lack of faith that worries about diseases being communicated … Continue reading

Germs the new terrorists?

So far it seems as though swine flu isn’t co-operating with the governments/media’s plan to turn into a pandemic. So far behaving no differently from any other seasonal flu. Of course the more cynical among us might wonder if the rapidly approaching end of shelf life for all those tamiflu capsules the government bought for bird flu back in 2005 has any relevance, it’s certainly hasn’t done Roche‘s share price any harm in the past. According to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation the shelf life of Tamiflu capsules is 5 years in capsule form but with 2 million … Continue reading