Elderly people are the most vulnerable as they try to tough it out.
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Yasufumi Miyake, associate professor at Showa University Hospital, who led a nationwide study on heatstroke. Deaths from heatstroke have quadrupled so far this summer as air conditioners have been switched off in line with government appeals to curb electricity usage. (Bloomberg)
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Utrack
This is not good, there should be some concession for families with Pregnant Women, Young Children and the Elderly. They did not cause the Crisis and the fact that they could possibly Die from Heatstroke is beyond all reasoning. Their Deaths are TEPCO's fault.
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ivarwind
Sorry, but you're wrong on all counts. To begin with, anyone who is now turning off an aircon, has installed one or at least used one previously. That requires electricity (one of the causes of the crisis).
Second, when it is very hot, some people die from heatstroke, mostly the elderly because they don't drink enough water. This is not beyond reasoning. Turning on the aircon is a second rate solution to simply drinking enough water (which for the elderly generally means drinking more than you feel you need).
Third, TEPCO is not forcing anyone, not even the elderly, to turn off the aircon, nor does TEPCO require the idling of a lot of power plants that are just as secure as they were a year ago (which may not be much).
So however many errors and terrible consequences you can blame TEPCO for, this just isn't one of them.
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Zenny11
Agree with Ivarwind.
There is no rule that you can't use an air-con, they actually said that if you can't bear it, etc switch it on. Yes, we are supposed to safe energy but not to the extend where we kill ourselves, how, when and where we safe is up to us.
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@ ivarwind
Yeah right, this little article would not have been written if the elderly were not dying. The elderly are far more patriotic and will do whatever they can to help their country as in every country.
And WHY are the people in JAPAN curbing energy usage ? TEPCO's crisis RIGHT
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