he was such a nice boy the brief time he was in Norwich. Its been down hill ever since.

Pretending to be political activist is rather like being able to write books about football while not being able to play football me thinks

Only yesterday, I was talking to a work colleague whose pre-teen daughter has had her lungs drained for the second time in a week as result of complications due to swine ‘flu. He said he was no longer “so blasé” about the disease now. It hits under 25-years olds far harder than older people.

Link to swine flu myths, including vaccine risks:
http://www.newscientist.com/special/swine-flu-myths-that-could-endanger-your-life

Chess or some other solitary pastime on your part would suit the left more, I think.

External Obsession – by sneery baiting thing I assume you mean asking questions of “Respect” other than from a fawning standpoint. It shows how the majority of “Respect” has fallen into a pit of self-delusion that you would rather engage in abuse than debate.

But I think there’s a justifiable worry about how quickly the vaccines being used have been rushed out and whether, there’s been proper testing of them.

Rather oinously, reports are now coming out of a Tammiflu resistant strain of H1N1.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8124987.stm

Of course, the big drug companies shouldn’t be allowed to charge the NHS exhorbitant prices and profit from the situation.

I know someone – we will call him Jimmy – who was told a few years he needed a heart pacemaker. Being a worrier, he researched the negative side-effects, and brought them up with the consultant.

The answer was another question :

All that could be true, but what do you think will be the major side-effect if you do not have a pacemaker inside your body?

Knowledge slowly dawned – Jimmy without a pacemaker would soon be dead. He accepted the machine.

Surgery and medical care is awful and risky – but it is often necessary to restore health.

The real issue is greater availability – universal health care – and improvements in technique and care – for example, transplantation of organs was a tremendous advance. The next step – still sadly far over the horizon – is probably genetic production of replacement organs.

Dirty Red Bandana, on November 17th, 2009 at 8:39 pm Said:

Well done, Padriac. A perfect example of how to miss the point and shoehorn dodgy third rate marxism-lite into the bargain..

Sit the “test” yourself DRB – give us all the benefit of your first rate marxism-lite analysis of what happened at the Respect Conference

Padraic I agree, with an amendment!

The best thing to do with anonymistas is : ignore them. DRB seems to be a particle in this internet dust.

Having said that – and I am not getting involved in a discussion about left wing tactics in England – the case for putting together a “left of the left” electoral list for the forthcoming British General Election is unanswerable.

Just as scary is the fact that some on the radical left make a curious leap from hating capitalist drug companies to thinking that voodoo like homoeopathy is a viable alternative. Bollocks to that I say.

As I think I made clear in my little introduction I had the vaccination but it left me feeling rougher than the seasonal flu jab which is why I did a bit of homework. Some people in the medical profession have expressed reservations about the speed with which this particular vaccination was brought to market. I don’t know enough to make an informed judgement but opted for the needle as the sensible guess.