Those of you that read my post about the ID scheme will know that I don’t consider the goverment in this country as capable of doing the thing properly and securely.
Well here’s the proof…….http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104945.stm.
This is an existing system, a set of information that exists and is allegedly controlled by strict procedure.
If this bunch of clowns can’t even manage the data they hold now, how can we be expected to trust them with a centralised database?
Today I went to have some blood taken for what the fine people of the medical profession call a ‘Group and Save’ (no – it’s not some kind of communal blood bank account – the idea is they can have a bag of matched blood on standby in case I spring a leek whilst under the surgeons knife [or robotic arms, whichever is more accurate in describing keyhole surgery]).
Anyway, normally I give blood up really easily – 1 jab = plenty of the red stuff (though mine looks more like black pudding – the nurse was impressed!). But today it took them 4 attempts to get a reasonable amount out of me (It took 2 attempts to get anything at all!?!).
Not that I’m moaning about the nurses – they did the best they could and it completely wasn’t their fault – what I am struck by is how unco-operative the body can be for no reason at all. I know that according to design our blood is intended to stay inside our body but even after all this time the body can still decide to give the docs the finger and not play ball.
A brilliant show a natural defiance, me thinks!
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