The Welsh Assembly Government is allocating a sixth (~£50million) of the new expenditure budget, more than to the high profile ‘transport infrastructure’, to preparing for the consequences of a flu pandemic. This is a huge slice of money for a single project dwarfing funding to any other similar project. So what is the basis or information on which this has been decided? What is it that they know that they haven’t been telling us and which now requires such massive resources devoted to it?
Now I happen to agree that (bird) flu is a very real and present danger to the human race and it is good that the WAG is apparently preparing for it in an intelligent and foresighted way. Nevertheless, it is also worrying that there has been no significant communication about this. I think the public needs to know if this threat is now more real or about to strike.
