Joe Biden still has the U.S. in a declared Covid emergency. We’re informed that systemic racism is a public health emergency. Maybe the monkeypox emergency is still going on? And, of course, there is also the ongoing climate emergency. How could the situation get worse? Boston is in Day 1 of a three-day “cold emergency”:
Mayor Michelle Wu has declared a cold emergency in the City of Boston for Friday, February 3 through Sunday, February 5 due to the extreme cold weather that is forecasted for this time period.
How about the kids who missed 18 months of school? They’ll be at home getting reacquainted with all of their favorite videogames:
After careful consideration and discussions with our local partners regarding the safety of our young people, Boston Public Schools will be closed on Friday, February 3, 2023.
What’s the history of cold emergencies? I don’t remember hearing this term. Who can cite a “cold emergency” from pre-2020?
Mindy the Crippler never complained about the cold! Here she is enjoying a December 2016 snow experience:
I came to the US (PA) as an exchange student in 1978 and that was the first time I had ever heard of a thing called a “snow day.”
I was in Chicago 2007-2009, and they had something like cold emergencies.
Everyone homeless person was scooped off the street because the chance of freezing to death was high.
And indeed, it was very cold then. Just walking around the city, you get the vague sense “If I fall over and can’t get up, I could die here”
And what about “equity”? Are private school students going to pull ahead by another day of learning?
Wind Chill -108F on Mount Washington. Luckily the homeless prefer California.
https://www.mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/current-summit-conditions.aspx
“Every winter came as a comolete surprise to Soviet government, and so heroic measures had to be taken to combat the scourges of snow and cold”.
Back to the USSR…
Those days, everything is an “emergency” and that’s a good thing. Why? States get $$ from Uncle Sam, City and Towns get $$ from the Governor of the State and Locals stay home and spend the $$ to fend off the “emergency”. What can go wrong? Ah, right, inflation becomes a new “emergency” so let’s fix it by handing out more $$.