It’s winter, FFS!
The NHS has warned people not to go out early in the morning or late at night as the country braces for three days of snow.
It has also urged people to stock up on food and medication amid warnings over the risks to health as temperatures plummet over the next week.
In the West Midlands, the NHS Black Country integrated care board warned of the dangers of slips, trips and falls.
“Avoid going out early in the morning when frost is thick or late at night when it’s dark,” it said, adding that people should wear shoes with good grip and keep their hands free to stabilise themselves.
In Herefordshire, the Wye Valley NHS Trust told people to “make sure you have sufficient food and medicine and take measures to reduce draughts in your home”. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, in Nuneaton, issued the same advice.
Christ almighty! How on Earth did we evolve this far? It’s winter. We gat bad weather. Fer cryin’ out loud. Seriously, these people are insane.
“these people are insane”
Unfortunately most of said loonies are making a fat living at our expense.
It’s power. During Covid the NHS (sort of) was able to order people to stay indoors and they would do so. Now they are trying it again. Sadly some people will be credulous enough to follow orders.
It has been said that Puritans (or Socialists) hate the idea that someone, somewhere, may be happy. The current turn of the screw is that not only must people not be happy they must also be doing only approved activities. Approved by The Zealots That Be, of course.
See the COVID controls primary aim as providing a ‘thrill’ to the authoritarians could explain a great deal. Perhaps the thrill of ‘Net Zero’ is a step too far though.
They can’t let go of lockdown mentality. Socialists are determined to instruct us on every trivial detail of life, including when it’s safe to go outside.
It’s not evolution, it’s ideology. They’re taking every opportunity to condition us into following instructions, or else.
I have lived through the 1947 and 1963 winters in a house without central heating or insulation. 1947 was particularly grim as coal was in short supply as were a lot of other things after the war. How did we manage to survive without the constant nanny warnings from a caring state.
“NHS Black Country integrated care board warned of the dangers of slips, trips and falls.”
It’s possible to slip or fall when walking on ice? Really? Who knew?
“Hello boss. I can’t come in for my night shift, the NHS has told us all to stay indoors when it’s dark.”
“But, but, but… You’re an NHS nurse, FFS!”
“Yeah, I know. But you can’t disobey the top brass, can you? See in a few days. Bye.”
I wonder how our ancestors, thousands of years ago pre-Roman times, managed to survive without sage advice from the NHS?
How did they know to take care and keep warm in the snow? To not overheat in the summer? To not poke the aggressive wildlife? Or not to eat too many chocolate gateaus?
It’s astonishing…
I was only five years old in 1963 so my memories of it are very faint. There were some pretty cold ones in the 1980s as I recall. My commute was about twelve miles down country lanes on an MZ motorbike. This took a lot of care but the little bike handled the packed snow and ice fairly well. I would arrive at work pretty frozen but the thought of crying out due to winter weather in winter would never have occurred o anyone. In the noughties, when my daughter was small the school bus would be cancelled at the sight of a single flake, the parents would take turns to car pool to get the kids to school, so the rot was setting in even then.
To be fair, a lot of UK residents are more used to (ahem) warmer climes. Not sure who thought publishing the advice in English was a good idea.
All very well telling people to stock. Up and not go out. I have morrisons deliver shopping, mostly worked really well but last night I ordered a tiger loaf and they did not have any in and didn’t offer an alternative!!! Surely they had some bread of some kind or has there been a rush on shops due to the warning. Now I’ve got to go out and try and locate a loaf.
I think on the past employees had more loyalty to employers and vise versa. I don’t get sick pay if I’m off sick and a colleague said as she doesn’t get paid sick leave she has no qualms about taking time off sick. If she was getting paid she’d think twice. Another colleague said he won’t risk driving in snow as a prang in his car will cost him more in excess than he’d earn by going in. Think Employers need to try and rebalance things if the want staff in during bad weather.
Anyone would think the zombies were coming
We slightly overstocked on the party food this year. We have enough bite sized twenty minutes in the oven stuff to last until spring.
On the winter of 1963, I’m pretty sure that I would have been too young to remember that one but I’m sure that there were other winters in the 1960s that I do remember that also brought significant snowfall. Our house had no central heating, just open fires. There was no heating upstairs at all. There had been fireplaces in the bedrooms but these had been bricked up. We slept under big piles if blankets and got dressed really quickly when we had to get up.
I’m actually starting to think this is all part of the agenda.
Most of us are very, very familiar with a British winter. Generally mild, with occasional exceptions, sometimes deep snow in the north that always takes councils by surprise, normally all cleared within a week – barring exceptional years.
The only people unaware of this would surely be our ‘new arrivals’. All looking forward to their free handouts, and likely never having experienced snow and ice.
It’s the only explanation I can think of…
Bit late saying stock up now when the snow is falling. If only we had a system to predict the weather in advance and not my weather rock.