A goood pandenic is just what the doctor ordered for Gordon B and cronies. Its very convenient to have a potential world pandemic outbreak to take peoples minds off the financial worries of the country and the world.

Without suggesting that this is all some media hype dreamt up by the spin doctors of the world it does seem to be a bit of a coincidence that it threatens to strike in the USA and here just when everyone is in the depths of despair about the economy.