It would be churlish of me to think ill of those
who have fought and won against their cancers.
They have reason to thank a costly health service
and several legal tax avoiding multi-national drug corporations.
So I will be glad for the support that they have been given.
Glad too that they have 'come out' about outliving the disease
that threatened their life. But their victory is cheapened
by a media that solely quotes cancer sufferers declared fit
by the incompetents, heartlessly employed at far more
than the net value of their work, who's job is to declare
incapacitated benefits claimants newly fit for employment.
It is as if survivors of said illness were the only people
fit to be quoted when there are many other conditions
that prove a barrier to acceptance by the employers
who think only in terms of 'the survival of the fittest'.
Perhaps the press think cancer is truly 'middle class',
and like them it is the only socially acceptable disease.
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