Swine Flu

Found this one doing the rounds.

Yep swine flu the latest doom story doing the rounds, least it makes a change from howling eco loons claiming that we are all doomed.

When it turns into a Stephen King style "project blue" I will lose sleep over it. 

Until then I won't.

Sadly for the doomsayers on the news it will most likely be a SARS style damp squib.

I give it a month and it will be back to icesheets breaking off, clips of dead polar bears and how we are all doomed.

Update from Saxontimes:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July1975 on waste (1), as amended by Directive 91/156/EEC (2),and in particular Article 1(a) thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste (3), and in particular Article 1(4), second indent thereof, laid down in Decision 94/3/EC and that of hazardous
wastes laid down in Decision 94/904/EC.

Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, every producer of waste is under a duty to ensure safe handling and disposal of the waste. This duty of care continues throughout the chain and includes all intermediaries from producer until final disposal. If any part of the disposal chain fails, the initial waste producer can be considered to have failed in their duty of care.

The definition of ‘household waste’ under The Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 includes waste medical materials from a patient’s own home.

If you transport waste medical masks you will need a licence. The cost of a licence in June 2005 was £136 and this may be obtained from the Environment Agency.

Alternatively, hide away with six months worth of food and water, weapons and everything else you can think of from the survivalist supply shop. Tell your boss to stick his job, turn off the lights so as to deter scavengers when society falls apart and huddle over the gas heater.

Then emerge weeks later when hardly anyone has died to find you look like an utter tool and need to beg your boss for your job back...

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