Suspects?

October 30, 2009 by Taran Rampersad

I saw the headline, Suspects Flooding Sando Hospital and wondered what the hell that was about. After all, the Trinidad Express main stories today are about a foiled kidnapping, a father accidentally shot by police and Cabinet making room for 24 more senior police.

So suspects flooding the San Fernando General Hospital seems pretty interesting. Are criminals now so afraid of the police that they are trying to practice medicine without a licence? What's going on?

Let me throw you a rope here. The full title of the article is Suspects flooding Sando hospital
3 in ICU for swine flu.  Really. So first, there are no 'suspects'. 

There are people who are afraid of possibly having the swine flu. Granted, I do think that it is a crime that the government and media are perpetuating the global fear locally - with little in the way of facts to support them.

But it isn't a crime to be afraid. So why on earth are they being called suspects on a day so heavy with police related headlines? Is it that some think we should arrest people with the swine flu? 

Seriously. Sometimes I wonder.

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