Cowering under a blanket
Be afraid!
The powers that be seem determined to keep us in a constant state of fear. We must be afraid of Warble Gloaming because we are all going to starve or drown. We must be scared shitless at the threat of a new pandemic [disease unspecified and non-existent but it will be deadly]. It’s strange that there have been no warnings about nuclear fallout which is possibly a real potential threat. Give them time…
Even on a minor scale we must be scared of a bit of winter.
Yes, all of Ireland is under a Yellow Alert because it is to be cold. We must stay safe and huddle up indoors in case the cold gets us. I have been around for three quarters of a century and have therefore survived over seventy winters. Some have been mild but others have been really fucking freezing. There were no coloured warnings in those days so how the fuck did I survive?
One of the bits of [supposedly helpful] advice is to drive carefully in case of ice on the roads. This one baffles me. Do they think I would go out there and drive like a lunatic when frost or snow on the windscreen has plainly told me that roads could be dicey? I suppose there are some idiots out there who might, but let Darwin take care of them.
The whole thing boils down to the fact that the “experts” think we are all mindless idiots who need constant advice on how to survive. Don’t do this, be careful of that and avoid anything else that might remotely lead to disaster.
How did I survive without their advice?
It’s a mystery.
Cold in winter? What happened to global boiling.
I don’t know if you’ve heard this yet but I think it sums them all up:
https://youtu.be/yED2b-GGRKg?si=dnQt38o0CAC-WBTc
Whilst those of us still with two brain-cells to rub together find all such infantalisation offensive, there are many who positively welcome it, more so after Covid, when the caring nanny state told you what jabs to have, to wear a mask, to stay apart, all for your own good – and it worked, you’re still alive, so it must have been all that good advice.
Those hard-of-thinking types are more than happy to let someone else do the thinking for them, life’s easier that way, you’ve always got someone else to blame etc.
Governments love it because it’s conditioning you to behave to order, George Orwell would be both unsurprised and validated.
“Yellow” warning? About what, by whom? Okay it snowed a bit, the power went out for a few hours. Found a service station that was selling hot coffee. Lit a fire.
I grew up in the 70’s when it was much worse. Colder for longer with rolling power cuts, one after another. Five hour power cuts I can do standing on my head and simultaneously scratching me nethers. Not that I will. the neighbours will think that I’m stranger than I make out.