Posted on 04/08/2018 12:45:22 PM PDT by george76
THE UK is being hit by its worst winter death toll in 42 years,
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temperatures are set to dip again in April after the chilliest March in 21 years.
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Campaigners have called the deaths a “national tragedy” as cold weather victims fatalities could be prevented - especially in the elderly.
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this winter is set to total at least 48,000 deaths due to cold weather – which works out at an average of one death every three and a half minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a senior sports executive. He told me they average 1-2 spectator fatalities every year at a certain well-known sports event. That sounded outrageous to me until he pointed out that there are 160,000+ people in attendance, and on any given day in a population that large there is a statistical likelihood that a few of them would die of natural causes.
Recall reading about them dropping dead when the heat got into the 80's for a few days.
And the Spanish have a phrase for them:
The tall sunburned people with bad teeth.
From the headline, I thought this article would be dated at least 100 years ago.
That’s my understanding, and the elderly and presumably vulnerable frequently die from hypothermia.
I would bet due the British attitude towards global warming there are costly restrictions to common sense usage of heating appliances.
Probably hiding all the deaths due to waiting for socialist healthcare.
Oh I say, frightfully bad.
However, they do use fireplace with coal, gas, or electric heat.
When I lived in Wroughton, UK the flat had one electric heater that required shillings in a meter to heat the rooms.
Unless you stayed in the sitting room the temp in winter time was a cool 55 degrees.
Either you pay the electric meter or the gas meter and it isn’t cheap. The socialists don’t care if they freeze the elderly with expensive energy.
Either you pay the electric meter or the gas meter and it isn’t cheap. The socialists don’t care if they freeze the elderly with expensive energy.
Install modern windows.
Here in SW Pennsylvania its going down to 22 degrees tonight. I want my global warming,and I want it now!
My guess is that in the UK *maybe* two or there deaths per day during the winter months were directly attributable to hypothermia.
Da Fuq?!
The UK is a first-world nation, yet 48k Brits die from the cold? Doubt there were that many civilians who died annually during medieval times or even during WW2 when Germany was bombing them into the underground. This report does not pass the “smell test”. I call bu!!sh!t on this one.
Today’s dead frozen pensioner is tomorrow’s contribution to social justice. That’s how socialism works.
Tess is a Tory? Dang, you could've fooled me! She must be from the G. W. Bush branch.
As they continue to restrict energy production and consumption in the UK they’ll be burning them soon!
At least the ones that don’t end up Solyent Green!
I see your point. We’ve watched lots of Brit TV. They have fire places, often more than one. Where Americans had pot bellied stoves, then the more modern wood burners and of course modern HVAC systems.
Point being, we tried a fire place once in a new home. Practically no heat unless we choked the chimney, then we had smoke in the house. We now have a modern wood burner, and the same amount of wood we wasted in a fireplace will literally roast us out.
Funny the Brits haven’t caught on.
“Install modern windows.”
So-called modern siding did a super job of warming up a Brit government apartment house some months back, as I seem to recall.
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