We bought £2 billion worth of Tamiflu as the science predicted 65000 deaths (346 the actual number) with the recent mexican flu.
You picked the £2billion figure out of the air; its bull**** as Tamiflu doesn't cost that much and Pandemic flu is an on-going threat and the UK has a agreement to re-process the stock of Tamiflu as they expire. Flu pandemic last several years, until the entire worlds population becuase immune from the particular strain, Have you suffered from Pig flue yet? no? then you probably will do in future, maybe in milder mutation or maybe in its more severe form which kill you. The first year of Spanish flu was mild, the second year killed tens of millions.
The UK has a contract that allowed the cancellation of the VACCINE, which they invoked, will it be necessary to keep this contract rolling. Just becuase the average idiot on the street thinks infection disease are inconsequential doesn't mean that they actually are.
"Pig flu was nothing, give me Ebola, I'm invincible.", after all, flu is exactly like the science of aircraft safety.