that wasn't real (nothing new there then), fancying a few days off work or in case they really did develop something in the future, and then the prescription figures being released as accurately describing the spread of the illness in a reliable way when it was all contrived in the first place...... and still conspiracy theorists feel they need to make things up! Was it just total mismanagement or something more sinister, who was it who said that in order to find the culprit you just need to follow the trail of money? skyesteve said, @md1364 -- as ever, I can't comment on what happened south of the border but here in Scotland things weren't quite how you describe. Tamiflu was reserved for those deemed to be at high risk and, in my experience, even among those people, when told what the pros and cons of Tamiflu were, the majority that I dealt with chose not to have it. In fact, during this flu outbreak I have literally written only one or two prescriptions for Tamiflu. Likewise, vaccination was only offered to high risk groups (including children under 5 and pregnant women) and, again, many opted not to have it. There's definitely grounds for discussing whether Tamiflu was over-hyped and over-rated and there's a fair amount of evidence that it was. Likewise there are grounds for saying that the vaccination programme was a bit chaotic and disorganised at times because it was! And it's also possible to gripe about how