The prospect of having a heart attack is so unpleasant that many of us prefer to ignore it, to treat it as something that happens to other people someplace else, not us. In any case, help is just a 999 call away, right?
Well, read on. That ambulance? It’s not coming – not in time, anyway. As I write this piece at the tail end of 2022, it’s been revealed that suspected heart attack victims are, on average, waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance to show up.
If you’re lucky enough to live in the beautiful county of Cornwall, your good fortune will be sorely tested by a wait of up to two hours. The situation is similarly dire in parts of Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Somerset and Bristol.
Of course, one of the reasons so many of us love shooting is to get away from it all, to enjoy time far from the madding crowd. Far from help, too. Even if you’re a clay Shot, you’ll likely be shooting on relatively remote ground due to noise considerations. So, you’ll have to judge those appalling wait times as being conservative.
Statistics
Of course, it’s not healthy to obsess about unfortunate
