Count Kostov Counts

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

What about the cost of living?

The health nazis are on the march again.

The cost of not eating our greens is estimated at $1,100 billion. Look: $1 billion here or there is clearly a rounding error in their calculation: give it to the count. I could give away $100 million and still have $900 million to buy back my Russian estates and the life style to which I am sure I could become accustomed. $1,100 billion????? That could be serious money.

$1,100 billion is what WHO reckon is the cost of avoidable chronic diseases. The avoidable chronic disease that the Count has spotted is death from the overwhelming odure of bureaucratic, self-serving bullshit running out of the WHO headquarters.


The worst fascists are the right on ones who pretend to want to help us, mainly by banning us from doing anything we might enjoy like drinking vodka, eating raw meat (and even chips) while out misbehaving with members of the opposite sex and the more alluring beasts of the forest. Nanny was bad enough, until I was old enough to know how good her badness could be. But Nanny WHO have the full UN mindset of wanting to run the world without the inconvenience of any elections. Only aristocrats are allowed to do that, and at least we do not ban everything once we are in power.

So today the World Health Organisation tells us that lots of people will die from chronic diseases which could be avoided if we all ate our peas, jogged, had cold showers in the morning and generally tried to be as miserable as the faceless bureaucrats who chew their celery sticks in the WHO. Time to look for the meadow mayonnaise: this is not a difficult exercise.

1) The venal start. Well of course the WHO is not going to produce a report which says things might be getting better. No WHO report can be produced shroud waving and the prospect of millions of deaths. They are in the business of keeping themselves in business, so the last thing they want to do is to admit that we might be a little better off than in the old days, when my mad Uncle Vanya who had to chew his own arm off without anaesthetic after being attacked by a wolf which took exception to being hunted. A rabid wolf was one thing: a rabid uncle Vanya was altogether more terrifying. And do not even mention tooth ache. The only medicine we had was opium, which was the one thing that was better in those days. WHO have banned even that.

2) The meadow mayonnaise moment. $1,100 billion? Kiss my aristocratic pants. Cut away the bollocks (of the WHO bureaucrats, preferably) and even they have to admit that the sum is only £1.9 billion a year in the UK: that is one thirtieth of the sum they chose for the press release. No matter: stick a large number out there and some journalist will fall for it. Even the £1.9 billion is totally suspect. It totally fails to count the cost of keeping these people alive. On our estates we were never to keen on the peasants living much beyond 50: their productivity went from abysmal to negative. So we encouraged them to have a good time on illicit vodka and as many potatoes as they could manage, in the hope this would help them work hard, enjoy life and die early. This way, everyone was kept happy.

3) The venal conclusion. Inevitably, the conclusion is that all the special interest groups have found another bandwagon and are jumping on board.
The WHO leads the way: "The cost of inaction is clear and unacceptable"
Diabetes UK jumps on board as well: "people must be educated to eat a healthy diet and take up regular physical activity"
The Lancet editor is calling for "concerted and co-ordinated political action" to help him get a knighthood and a job with WHO
The British Heart foundation gleefully warns of "an epidemic of obesity".

Have these people ever heard of liberty, free choice, personal responsibility or having fun? If you want any of these, you need an aristocrat, not a bureaucrat, running planet earth. Emperor Kostov at your service......

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