Like many of you Dr Bob is fed up with the electronic drivel filling his inbox but every now and again there is one that catches his eye and raises a smile. ‘Evidence of the use of pandemic flu to depopulate USA’ was one such email. Circulated by someone in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals from the operating theatres, who may have been sniffing something they shouldn’t, and circulated to every email user group, for some bizarre reason starting with ‘All Nursery Nurses’. It contains a link to a delightful conspiracy to the effect that the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN and for some strange reason the US government are going to decimate the population of America with a toxic flu vaccine. What they seem to be most concerned about were emergency powers that allow the confiscation of property and guns.
I remember meeting a previous Director of WHO, a most amiable Finnish man who helped me with my bags at St Polten railway station on the way to a conference. That must have been a stonker of a hangover.
But a Dark Peak member has sent me some press reminders of more relevant threats to our health. I will leave the burning genitals, hippo swallowing, buzzing undies, deck chair hazards and leave you with something that touches the deepest masculine fears:
