What is a ‘warm bank’? I hear you ask Well its basically as follows
Public spaces such as community centres, churches, art galleries and libraries could be used as ‘warm banks’, so people who struggle to heat their homes this winter will be able to gather inside the public buildings.
Hard to believe but seemingly true we have had food banks now we need heating banks God Help us
Apparently, Bristol, Birmingham, London, Gateshead, Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow are the cities considering introducing ‘warm banks’.
Other councils including Southend, in Essex, Sheffield, in Yorkshire, and several in Nottinghamshire have already started mulling similar plans for either setting up, supporting or highlighting the locations of ‘warm banks.
Kazz, How strange!
I was only thinking this morning, would public places like libraries and public indoor places become packed with people going somewhere other than their own homes, to get warm.
I thought, maybe neighbours, or friends could take turns to congregate in each other’s houses on certain days to save on energy use.
How about bonfires contained in old oil barrels with dishevelled folk crowding around them, like you sometimes see in American movies? Those would be outside, which would mitigate the spread of Covid.
Maybe, the striking Royal Mail workers and train drivers might have one of those fires that people could huddle around.
You could take your chestnuts as well, to roast them!
So, do you guys think that these “Heat Banks” are a way of bringing lots of people together in order to spread Covid? Like…a government conspiracy thing?
