“I don’t understand why I feel so hot and thirsty. The team doctor doesn’t know why, either. The government needs to tell us.” Image generated by Grok AI
With climate activists increasingly warning of killer heat waves every summer in Europe, the German government has drawn up a heatwave protection plan that calls for more draconian guidelines and bans for sports events on hot days.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) is presenting three new heatwave safety plans in order to better respond to the health effects of heatwaves.
In doing so, the German authorities are expanding the “Health Heatwave Protection Plan” to include the areas of sport, pharmacies and psychotherapeutic practices, according to the BMG press release here.
Adults still haven’t learned how to conduct themselves when it’s summertime, the authorities appear to believe.
The BMG says the heat protection plans are intended to inform citizens about the health risks of heat and to protect people who are at an increased health risk. In particular, this includes older people, the chronically ill, pregnant women, young children and sports enthusiasts.
The heat protection plans are recommendations to protect and sensitize these groups of people against heat.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sportspeople are among the risk groups particularly affected by climate-related health risks. In cooperation with other organisations, the BMG has written up heatwave protection plan for organized sports in order to better protect all target groups in popular sport from heat-related health risks.
This plan, the federal BMG reports, is intended to help clubs and associations to protect athletes, full-time employees and volunteers, e.g. coaches, referees, officials and service staff, as well as spectators, from heat-related health risks.
BMG federal health authorities propose recommendations for event organizers to heed, such as (from page 5):
- Ensuring heat and acclimatization-friendly travel and event planning
- Determining whether and when competitions can be cancelled or postponed in extreme heat
- Placing start and finish areas as well as staging areas in shaded areas.
- Avoiding open fires/barbecues.
The proposed guidelines get pretty extreme, and also include:
- Refrain from serving alcoholic, highly sugary, caffeinated or taurine-containing drinks
- Offering mineral water, unsweetened tea and thin juice spritzers
- Providing free drinking water dispensers
- Distribution points for free sunscreen, headgear, loaner sunglasses.
Note that the German government here is presenting all this as recommendations that can be voluntarily followed. But we all know how such things develop later. We’ll have a heat-czar before we know it.
The GR authorities need to get out more. Not a mention of “misters.”
Searchup (with images) “public place misting systems”
Backyard and patio folks have had these for years — friends had a system 20 years ago.
When I was a kid, 70 years ago, we had a misting system. It was called a “garden hose.”
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Our last Summer in Brisbane, Oz, was the wettest since 1974. Odd that we spent $Billions on Desal after we were told in the Naughties that we were in a permanent drought. It’s been said that it was the hottest, too, but that’s just not possible. When will Joe Public wake up?
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Welcome to the EU madhouse!
Come on 1 Mass costs over 15€ at the Oktoberfest this year.
There’s nothing farther from truth than recommending no beer in Germany, considering how much money the government earns in form of VAT on this “Nahrung” (=food)
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