UK Covid death toll

[Malcolm Tucker]

Top work as always B1. Any idea what was behind the 1976 deaths figure?

[tiptontown]

Top work as always B1. Any idea what was behind the 1976 deaths figure?

At a guess Malc the hot summer we had in that year might have been responsible for some of the above average deaths. For anybody who experienced it, it was a record breaker for how long it lasted and a lot of old folk suffered.

[foreveralbion]

i was only 6 in 1976 but forever in memory how hot it was.

addressing hudds point and we really need to look at how much we are eating and how little we are moving.

my generation id guess are the first obese ones we have had and you can already see it being passed onto their kids.

needs to be a big drive to eating less and healthier if possible coupled with a push to get people of their arses.

[Fido]

Top work as always B1. Any idea what was behind the 1976 deaths figure?

At a guess Malc the hot summer we had in that year might have been responsible for some of the above average deaths. For anybody who experienced it, it was a record breaker for how long it lasted and a lot of old folk suffered.

I do remember water-trucks being on street corners but can't help thinking that was also the case the following year? I was born in '72 so memory might be hazy!

[hudds]

Top work as always B1. Any idea what was behind the 1976 deaths figure?

At a guess Malc the hot summer we had in that year might have been responsible for some of the above average deaths. For anybody who experienced it, it was a record breaker for how long it lasted and a lot of old folk suffered.

I do remember water-trucks being on street corners but can't help thinking that was also the case the following year? I was born in '72 so memory might be hazy!

Was 1976.  I was working on the furnaces at Brockmoor Foundry....

[baggy1]

Defo 76 was the hot summer, I was only 8 but remember the water taps in the street. That must have been hotter than hell Hudds - good on yer

[Ossian]

'75 was a hot one as well; exceptional by normal standards then eclipsed by '76.

[Borin' Baggie]

'75 was a hot one as well; exceptional by normal standards then eclipsed by '76.

Normal standards? 1976 has been matched 3 times in the 21st century, the last time in 2018, so I'm not sure it's exceptional anymore.

[tiptontown]

'75 was a hot one as well; exceptional by normal standards then eclipsed by '76.

Normal standards? 1976 has been matched 3 times in the 21st century, the last time in 2018, so I'm not sure it's exceptional anymore.

I've not looked it up, but although temperatures might have been surpassed, I'm pretty sure we went about 2-3 months without any rain or very little, so not sure that has been matched.

[baggy1]

I think you've got to take into account the times as well, there weren't any air conditioned offices or restaurants for us to enjoy and the water was rationed because the infrastructure was so bad as well.