Move Along, Nothing To See Here!

As we head towards an election, the fate of the western world hangs by a thread.
Actually, it doesn't, but that's what they'd have you believe.
At such times, rampant scaremongering tends to be the case - after all, the safe choice is the best choice, and you're safe with us™© !
So it comes as no surprise when I read the news ( on the BBC website, no less) that 80,000 people in the U.K. might die if an infection resistant to antibiotics appeared.

So basically, nothing has actually happened and the postulated infection doesn' t even exist.
Phew, huh?
I thought we were goners for sure !
Thank goodness then, for the National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies: because the statistics come from their offices.
Another redundant government initiative, you cry ?
Okay, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt here- it may well be the case that the NRRCE (couldn't they get someone to sex-up the acronym even a little ? ) are preparing for a worst case scenario - but why is this presented as news ?
Slow day for news , perhaps ?

They say that there is no smoke without fire, and there is a movement complaining of the lack of new antibiotics, i.e. resistance to all available medicines has reached a high point, so we need more, new antibiotics.
Of course, there is another thread that says Big Pharma would happily keep plying us with medicines because there's more money in medicine than there is in cures...when last did we cheer as a cure was found ?
Certainly the dread TB, once thought eradicated , seems to be re-emerging: and then there's the anti - vaccine brigade, pushing back decades of progress in the fight against childhood maladies.
Many people, myself included, are reluctant to take anti-biotics on the grounds that they swiftly stop being effective.
It is of benefit to  maintain a strong immune system (something I adhered to  until I was diagnosed with MS, a condition in which the immune system fights itself ).

But this post was not originally about the medicines, or shortcomings of the much maligned NHS.

It was about misdirection, in which a casual interest in the news led to a pointless piece of statistical scaremongering.

In hindsight, I might 'spike' this piece, with the ominous words ' needs more zombies'