35000 deaths feared in the new (non-climate change) blizzards

[TalkingDog]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/216765/Weather-35-000-deaths-fear-in-new-Arctic-blizzards

Charities warned of pensioners suffering “Dickensian” conditions, resorting to riding on buses or huddling in shopping centres just to keep warm.

Millions of Britons are being forced to turn down their thermostats as gas and electricity prices spiral.

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Neil Duncan-Jordan, of the National Pensioners Convention, said: “Rising bills and severe weather are going to put tremendous pressure on older people and we believe last year’s death rate of nine pensioners an hour could go up to 12 every single hour.

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Jonathan Powell said the prolonged cold snap would leave Britain “the coldest country in the northern hemisphere” and “on a par with Siberia”. He said: “By next weekend, winds are turning northerly and there will be a true Arctic blast sweeping the country. Snow will fall as far as Bodmin in the South-west.

[aquart]

1. The government they have now will let them go.

And consider it effective cost cutting.

[me b zola]

5. Downsizing!

Reagan & Thatcher would approve.

:(

[librechik]

2. Thanks god freezing to death is not a bad way to go.

12 pensioners an hour in th UK. How many will die here in similar conditions? (I'm saying thank god because I fully expect to be one of them.)

[Rex]

4. I can't believe they have a quantitative number on deaths.

We are turning inhuman over money, again. Why do humans have such a gaping fault when it comes to capitalism?

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. That's a very scary situation. :^(

[TygrBright]

6. I figure this is how I'll go someday...

..when I'm old and my money runs out.

I'll save enough for a bottle of scotch, find a nice cosy snowbank, chug it down, and no longer be a drag on the pocketbooks of good hard-working, tax-paying, stone-hearted Republicans.

philosophically,
Bright

[TalkingDog]

7. Ice Floe. The older Inuit

are purported to have reduced their burden on the tribe in a similar fashion

At least the Polar Bears got a meal out of it.