By Jo Nova The Nanny State strikes again

Apparently, there just aren’t enough real emergencies anymore, so we need to fake them up.

A couple of weeks ago, our billion dollar ABC, in cohoots with the Bureau of Meteorology, decided to report in prime time news that heatwaves are now so deadly serious we need New Emergency Warnings — “like a Bushfire emergency”, even though we get heatwaves every year, they hardly kill anyone and even five year olds know how to press the air conditioner button.

Back in 1896, Australians had to catch emergency trains and head for the hills the heat was so deadly. But apparently adult mammals are now so stupid they don’t know when it’s hot, and need to sit next to ABC Emergency radio all day in case “things change quickly” and someone needs to tell them to rush to the fridge for a glass of water.

I mean, it’s almost like heatwaves sneak up on people around hills at 100 miles an hour?

Either that or two government agencies want to scare more money out of Australian taxpayers:

New heatwave warning system adopted across Australia, using bushfire-style emergency alerts

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