UH OH: Swine Flu has British hospitals “gridlocked.” Plus this: “He expressed anger about the failure of Government and the NHS to develop sufficient contingency plans.” Yeah, it’s not like nobody worried about this previously. (Via Blue Collar Philosophy).

Related: Swine Flu in Wayne County, Illinois.

UPDATE: Oh, good grief: ‘Worried well’ should be banned from having flu jab says leading GP. They’ve gotten criticism for not ordering enough vaccine, so now they want to ban people from paying privately to get it, because that upsets the government rationing scheme. And the government rationing scheme, from what little I can tell from this story, doesn’t make much sense. The pharmacists seem to agree.