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If Canada don’t GET THE FUCK …

lmao

There are now more than 90 people dead. You can bitch and whine that’s it’s hotter where you are, but you have to understand that it’s the elderly, homeless and small children who don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to health problems. How fucking despicable can you be to just laugh at people dying because temperatures are hotter where you are. Our infrastructure was built to withstand -30 C°, not the heat. It’s not about how Canadians are “weak”, it’s literally just shitty circumstances.

Not to mention that people who are accustomed to cold climates have a physically more difficult time coping with temperatures that their bodies aren’t used to. Also a lot of people who have never had to cope with hotter temperatures aren’t as familiar with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, don’t know how to manage the heat safely , etc!

That last point.

Denmark is currently in its hottest summer ever recorded, and the number of people I’ve talked to who have only now discovered what a heat stroke is amazes me, because I grew up in the South of France where summers are hot as fuck every year – my brother-in-law went out for a bike ride without a hat and with a half a liter of water for three hours and came back and was sick because of it. 

The idea that he’d get sick because of the sun didn’t even OCCUR to him, because in his 30+ years on this green ball swirling through space, it’s never been an issue for him.

In the South of France, most cafés have mist sprayers and all shops / malls are air-conditioned. In Denmark, most cafés do NOT have mist sprayers (but heat lights!) and the shops are not always air-conditioned.

Most of the warehouses have been out of portable air-conditioners and fans on an off since May because people are hot and have no air-condition installed. The buildings are built to keep heat IN. Not out.

No air con, buildings designed to keep heat in, not even ceiling fans, no drinking fountains, windows that don’t open in buildings, and we expect people to work in those buildings, in their full uniform which has no ‘hot weather’ option – I mean what employer is going to provide short sleeves and shorts for that one week every three years where it gets above 25/80 degrees? – windows that don’t open on public transport, and often no shade while waiting for said public transport, we have heaters and insulation and draft excluders, we buy black cars and dark clothes, we buy sunscreen for our holidays in Spain, then forget where we put it, when we find it and apply it we sweat it off again because we’re not used to the heat, we walk places rather than drive and even if we drove, our cars don’t have proper air con and we don’t have covered parking, school playgrounds and public parks have no shade, people don’t have pools so kids play out all summer in the heat. We don’t have ‘American style’ large fridges or freezers with ice makers and they break down when competing with hotter than usual ambient temperature, most of us don’t even own cool boxes – or if we do it’s at the back of the shed full of spiders.

So yes, we have to be told it’s going to be hot. And we have to be warned to check our elderly neighbours and to help them take the blankets off their bed or to swap to a summer duvet, to suggest they have a cold drink instead of a pot of tea and take off their cardigan.

Because we only know people who got sunstroke on their holidays abroad.

And we have never in our lives known anyone who died from the heat.

To anybody who thinks it’s funny when people die, you can go fuck off a tall bridge. 

I live in Phoenix. It’s going to be 115F/46C degrees today. This is nothing unusual for this time of year. And yet every year we lose people to the heat. I can’t imagine what super temps must be like when you are not used to it. England, Quebec, and most of Europe’s home were designed to keep heat in. Not let it out. So instead of giggling like evil children over someone else’s horror, try being a little more understanding at the very least of what they are going through.

Advice from a lifelong desert dweller to my overheated friends up north (or anywhere not accustomed to the fires of Hell):

• Drink A LOT of water. And I mean A LOT. If you think you’ve had enough, you haven’t. Drink more. Or drink Gatorade, Poweraide, hell, even juice. Just avoid hot drinks and alcohol.
• Feeling dehydrated? Do NOT chug anything. Chugging will make it worse, and you might throw up, which will make it worse.
• If you’re dehydrated, drink ROOM TEMPERATURE or slightly cooler drinks. Do NOT drink ice cold drinks, you will get sick.
• Soda isn’t great, but it’s honestly better than nothing. Please drink soda if it’s the only option, at least you’ll still get slightly hydrated.
• AVOID ALCOHOL. I cannot stress this enough. Alcohol will make you much sicker, much faster.
• Avoid high sodium consumption. Salt dehydrates you. If you must eat salt, drink plenty of water.
• Try to invest in handheld fans and misters. Definitely get a decent sunhat. Invest in sunscreen.
• Buy an extra reusable water bottle. Fill it with water and refrigerate it. When you finish one bottle, swap and repeat.
• Limit your time outside as much as possible. Heatstroke is fatal and can happen fast.
• Take cool showers or baths if possible. If nothing else, cool clothes on neck and forehead.
• Take some time to look up homemade ice packs and make a few. They can be a great asset if you need to cool down quickly. Again, forehead and neck.
• Pets need a lot of water when it’s hot. Also, consider trimming any critters with long fur so they can stay cool.
• If you can, get box fans and place them in strategic locations. Place one facing your bed and drape a damp towel over it at night. Make sure it’s not dripping onto any electrical outlets or cords. The damp towel can help cool down a room.
• Rest as much as possible. Drink water while resting.
• Seriously, I cannot stress this enough. Drink A LOT of water. If you can’t stand water, drink a sports drink or juice. Even soda is better than nothing. Just STAY HYDRATED.
• If you feel clammy, dizzy/faint, a faint but rapid pulse, or you’re sweating excessively, find shade, sit, rest, sip water. You may have heat exhaustion. Ask someone to get you a damp cloth.
• If you’re hot but not sweating, have a rapid, strong heartbeat, feel nauseous or faint, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY. You may have heatstroke. Heatstroke can be fatal.

Take care of yourselves. This is not a joke. Heat can be fatal.

Again its dark humor its not suppose to be all happy what happened was bad yes but someone out there just wanted to lighten the mood