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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Boiled alive

Kinda redundant since I live in PHX but you’ld be amazed how many people don’t get it that 118 degrees and no water + exposure = crappy death. Anyway the point of bringing this up was just how easy it is to rile a popluation up over something new while ongoing acceptable methods of death are happily allowed to continue. Case in point, Firearms kill less children than swimming pools from accidental deaths but the comfort level with pools is seemingly way higher than it is with guns which is a shame since dead = dead no matter how you get there. So bird flu versus boring medical deaths, yep more people die monthly in the US re medical mistakes than WHO have attributed to bird flu on the WHOLE planet.

The surprise at the heat was matched only by shock at the scale of the human casualties it caused: more than 2,000 people died in Britain, 7,000 in Germany, 4,000 in Spain and 1,000 in Italy. The largest casualties were in France, where almost 15,000 perished in the first three weeks of August, more than 19 times the global death toll from the Sars epidemic earlier that year.

Amazing how many people worry about the next big thing when all the old killers seem to get a pass seemingly the democratic oath taken here is “do no thinking”