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Professor of public health Michael Baker. Image credit The BFD.
Epidemiologist Michael Baker calls for mandatory isolation for people with the flu

Newshub

My experience of having flu is that you normally are too sick to feel like going out. Surely we don’t need the State to force us to stay home? It is time for Michael Baker and the Government to get out of our lives and stay out.

The hospitals were not under serious strain until the Government fired hundreds of nurses and doctors in the middle of an epidemic. They spent money on everything except improving hospital services and now they have the cheek to suggest that people suffering from normal winter viruses be confined forcibly to their homes?

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