Pig chimney

Incidentally the forecasts I've seen for the economic consequences of a swine flu pandemic appear to grossly understate the likely impact on business. In the event that 100,000 people a day fall genuinely ill over August anyone who fancies an extra week off in the sunshine will simply claim to have gone down with swine flu too. (Try getting a sick-note out of the NHS during a swine flu pandemic - there will simply be no way to distinguish the genuinely sick from the malingerers.) 

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I'm down with swine flu. A week's gone down the drain and it's not over yet. Count that!