Not only are our politicians claiming for everything from bath plugs to porn movies these days, they are using direct mail to teach us how to use a tissue when we sneeze – with a glossy five-colour leaflet sent to over 25 million homes in the UK.
What a complete waste of MORE taxpayers money, though I would love to have been the printer that got that job.
Even if Swine Flu does start to spread, will this really help? Personally I don't need to be told how to contain a sneeze and I’m pretty sure a pretty sizable portion of the population doesn’t need to be told either.
Maybe they should have targeted the mailing better by sending it to all the people who live in caves, or have no TV, radio or internet, or those whose only source of news on the world around them is Jeremy Kyle and Trisha Goddard – we could have assisted them with that and reduced the enormous amount of paper and ink used in this disastrous attempt at scare mongering.
In all the panic, our politicians and the media seem to have failed to realise that flu in a bad year kills on average 24,000 people in the UK alone and that so far we have only around 70 confirmed cases of Swine Flu – all treatable with medication.
Honestly, the government and the press seem to collude on anything to take our minds off the banking and political crisis. What’s next, a parliamentary debate on Katie and Peter splitting up?
