Just seen ANOTHER report on the BBC, local North West news, about Arlene McCarthy MEP campaigning in the European Parliament to make airlines take more responsibility for DVT. Wait for it, she has raised this issue after a local man died of DVT after a flight to Benidorm!
Now I know it is tragic, especially for the family and friends of the man who died and I am not trying to make light of their distress but to suggest that a two and a half hour flight was the actual cause without any investigation into the his normal lifestyle is just over dramatic reporting and the MEP is obviously after a few sound bites to increase her 'exposure'.
The report then goes on about how DVT is known as 'Economy Class Syndrome' because people are more likely to get DVT in that seating class. Have you ever heard such utter cr@p?
Are all these people and reporters just trying to get on the '15 minutes of fame' bandwagon by quoting totally unresearched and unqualified statements? Are the BBC cutting back so much that the quality of their reporting has reached gutter level?
What about the millions of people who take car journeys over two and a half hours without a break or the countless numbers of holidaymakers who travel by coach, sometimes for days at a time? Are they dropping like flies because of the disease ridden, unrecirculated air and the swarms of blood clots rising forth from their legs?
Trial by media on subjects such as these are the latest fashion when these news editors are having a quiet news week. Dumbing down because they have no talent!
[ 04 September 2001: Message edited by: Sir Algernon Scruggs ]