Neil Oliver’s weekly monologue is, once again, insightful and also unnerving. Here’s part of the transcript (via Treehouse):
Winter arrived last week – and with
it a dose of reality. All that talk about wrapping up warm in the house,
putting on an extra jumper, hot water bottles, full-size onesies – it’s
dangerous nonsense. It might be fine for a while if you’re a healthy adult –
but it’s a tragedy in slow motion for babies, young children, the elderly, the
sick.
And it’s only the second week in
December. It’s a long time until Spring.
Even if layering up and donning a
hat were enough to keep a body going, once cold properly gets a grip of a
house, it too starts to die in its own way.
The creep of dampness that takes
its own toll on house and health alike. Frozen pipes – followed by burst pipes
– and not enough plumbers to go round. People who can’t afford to heat their
homes are likely struggling with spiking food bills as well.
All of this in a first world
country that was home to the industrial revolution that changed the world for
the better and lifted billions out of poverty. Now the grannies saved by
locking down the world until its heart stopped beating, are sitting down to die
alone of cold and hunger. It’s amazing how inventive the Establishment has
proven to be in coming up with ways to invite the elderly to die miserable
lonely deaths.
Our so-called leaders tell us all
of it is a price worth paying – by which they mean worth paying by us, the
little people. All the decisions are being made by those who have no intention
whatever of spending so much as five minutes in an unheated home. Turn up the
thermostat and fill out the expenses claim – that’s the order of the day for
our elected representatives. . . .
Read the rest here (or listen to the
video).
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