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Local hacks get flu jab

25/09/08 - 0 comments

The owners of the Daly Mail and the Express and Echo are giving their staff free flu jabs to ensure badly written news will still be available in case of a national pandemic.

The government has been stockpiling Tamiflu, the supposed vaccine for the possible outbreak, although it's believed they only have enough stocks in reserve for 25% of the population.

That figure is supposed to include essential workers (we're guessing Doctors, nurses and pizza delivery guys) so how the hacks at the Echo have managed to get their hands on a bumper Christmas box of the stuff is a mystery.

This country could do with a decent outbreak of something to thin out the numbers. There hasn't been a decent war (that skirmish in the sand doesn't really count) or outbreak of anything particularly nasty for ages and we've got far too many old people living to 100 and unable to wipe their own arses.

Just think of the money saved in the NHS if there was a nice cleansing purge of the elderly and infirm from it's corridors. No more hip replacements, no more sight saving surgery for old biddies, no wait, they already refuse to do that, but you get the idea.

We need to bring in some kind of Carousel to help thin the wheat from the chaff, or make smoking mandatory. Either that or we could just stop giving old folk flu jabs in the first place. Who are we to play god?

Thanks to Sniffy for the tip off.

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