I just wanted to share a thought here on the very well repeated topic of AC and the heatwave in CH. On average each summer die out of excess heat approximately 700/800 people in CH, with a peak of around 1400, which this summer, given the strength it has started, we might overtake. During the Covid pandemic, on 2020 (the hardest year) around 8000-10000 people died in excess. Now, we all unfortunately remember the extreme measures that were taking place to control the health situation. I think it is worth pointing out the extreme disparity it exists between how critical and urgent the situation was seen at that time and how much gaslighting and irrelevance in comparison is given to the heat problem. Excess heat will reach the cumulative covid levels of mortality every around 10 years, probably even less time given the increased heat wave intensity, the mortality focuses on a similar group of people, older and/or with previous medical conditions. The main difference here is that for heat there won’t be any vaccine, and the intensity will keep increasing. To me, a consistent view of this public health issue will not be “allowing” AC installations, but rather promoting them, subsidising them and even enforcing its installation and use in elderly care homes and public spaces like schools. Renting an apartment that can reach 30C should be considered as renting one without heating, the tenants should be able to claim money back from their landlord for not being adequate for living. It is time to address this issue as it deserves, a public health crisis that will continue to worsen. And I am not even mentioning all the unnecessary suffering taken by the majority of the population affecting their quality of life, their efficiency at job and their wellbeing. submitted by /u/Green-Momentum
Originally posted by u/Green-Momentum on r/Switzerland