Musing from the Moor - Swine Flu

Swine Flu seems to have fallen out of the news this week so I thought I had better revive it, its been such a good topic of conversation for the past few weeks it seems such a shame to let it fade away without comment.
I have had a cold this week, an ordinary summer cold with the usual sneezing (such a waste of energy and so annoying) runny nose, vaguely sore throat which started at the weekend and by the time I went into work on Monday it was on its way out.
I had hoped for a little sympathy but I spent the week reassuring people that I had an ordinary cold and not Swine Flu. Have we all gone mad? When does someone who obviously has a snotty nose but not much else suddenly need to be sent home from work, I refused to go, I was fine.
I would certainly have thought I was ill if I ignored a fiver on the floor, so as a test I chucked a fiver on the floor (nowhere public however, just encase someone beat me to it!) and happily retrieved it several times for a few days. Convinced I was OK I gave this up as a waste of time and energy but I do think that its a good test for those in doubt. Perhaps I could market the idea, sell a fiver all wrapped up in a plastic bag for say a tenner and people could then self diagnose (so many people like to work out what is wrong with them - consider the pregnancy testing kit market, diabetic testing etc - huge).
Then they could spend hours trying to get through to the Swine Flu hot-line confident in their diagnosis which will then be confirmed by a teenage non-medic that they are ill. Then the non-medic can give you a voucher that allows you to go and get some pills that may at best reduce the time you are unwell by a day at worst give you side-effects that actually make you unwell.
Like I said we have all gone mad! and its costing us a fortune perhaps I could promise not to ask for Tamiflu and have a reduction in my tax bill. That idea I think probably needs pondering on this week and no doubt I will return to reducing my tax liability over the coming weeks!