From NoTrickZone

By P Gosselin

Latest hysteria: preparing for heatwave-pandemics… the fake heat crisis… controlling people under the guise of protecting them.

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.