On reading of the proposed Government plan to lay in a stock of anti-viral drugs to immunise the population when the expected pandemic arrives at, it may be added, an outrageous cost, I was wondering if the wearing of Michael-Jackson-style face masks might not be more economical and more effective.

Or people could make their own and, as the present Government is so keen on producing leaflets on various subjects, all that is required is a modestly-priced instruction leaflet on how to construct such masks.

-Richard March, Hove