Pensioners keep being warned that they’re in particular danger. As if the sun has escaped from a lab in China, and we need to go into lockdown till Chris Whitty can work out how to get rid of it. Yet councils all over the country are urging us all to “take care”. In short: a lovely, but unremarkable, summer’s day. The maximum predicted temperature is 30C, or 86F. Sounds alarming – until you glance at the actual forecast. Apparently, the “Head of Extreme Events” at the UK Health Security Agency warns us to “keep hydrated” and “check in on” any vulnerable friends, family or neighbours. All the same, I wish its reporters would stop panicking about it.Īccording to BBC News, today is going to be so terrifyingly hot that the public has been issued with a “heat-health alert”. Given that this country has only just emerged from the longest and most miserable winter in living memory, perhaps it’s understandable that the BBC seems so startled by the sudden appearance of that strange round yellow thing in the sky.
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