David Spiegelhalter has a thoughtful piece in The Times about how swine flu could return us to rates of child mortality not seen for 25 years in this country – but still nothing like what it was in my great grandmothers day
What with war, ‘Dignity’ & now flu we are having to face up to death in a rather more clear eyed way than has been customary for some time
I just hope that we may start to have less time for the ersatz version in books, tv & film
