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>I think it's interesting how different cultures react to situations. The UK of course took the much more sensible course of setting up a website and phone lin
by uhjkiyrfggv 17y ago
>I think it's interesting how different cultures react to situations.
The UK of course took the much more sensible course of setting up a website and phone line where people could just be handed out one of the few wide spectrum oral antivirals like candies.
Good job that antibiotic resistant bacteria aren't already a problem, killing more people in hospitals each year than die on the roads.
We have turned a million people (none of whom will complete the course once they feel a bit better) into incubators for Tamiflu resistant viruses.
- ErrantX 17y agoIndeed. It's interested me how the panic here manifested and now has died off. I wonder if we will see a resurgance at the end of the summer (seeing as it is India's flu season now and ours a little later it could turn out the same reaction). Since the phone line / website things seem to have even gone quiet in the media which is intruiging. And yes, it was a poor reaction; I could quite believe they actually did it. Though my doctor (when visiting him on an unrelated point) said there was no physical way they can test every valid complainant so they were handing it out anyway simply for safety)