No, as “hateful” as it sounds… I’d say primary cause as well. Nothing stopped them from walking to their neighbors house and asking them if they could stick it out there for a bit since their A/C went out… Well… except for the walking part.
They had family coming and checking on him regularly. If he wasn’t so fat that he couldn’t get out of bed, he’d have just gone to their house… No? Clearly they cared. They installed a window A/C.
Inaction over the course of 2 days is was killed this man, the cause of inaction was his weight. His family obviously determined that they couldn’t move him… and he couldn’t move himself.
Edit: To the point, I also live in AZ. I have a really big solar install that lets me run my house off grid and islanded (with many hours of battery as well). I’ve told my neighbors they should come over during outages. People understand what A/C means here in this state. This family shouldn’t have been blind-sided by the problem. It would have been his inability to get out of bed that limited options.
I just want to point something out since it hasn’t been said.
When it’s so hot that your body is shutting down, you’ve already been well past the point of being able to think straight and make critical judgements.
Obesity aside, many people would fail to seek help not realizing they’re in a life of death situation to begin with. You’re so hot you must find yourself sitting or lying down unable to do jack shit. Need thing you know you’re dying of heat stroke. And sadly, we’re going to see this more and more as climate change kills more people.
No, as “hateful” as it sounds… I’d say primary cause as well. Nothing stopped them from walking to their neighbors house and asking them if they could stick it out there for a bit since their A/C went out… Well… except for the walking part.
They had family coming and checking on him regularly. If he wasn’t so fat that he couldn’t get out of bed, he’d have just gone to their house… No? Clearly they cared. They installed a window A/C.
Inaction over the course of 2 days is was killed this man, the cause of inaction was his weight. His family obviously determined that they couldn’t move him… and he couldn’t move himself.
Edit: To the point, I also live in AZ. I have a really big solar install that lets me run my house off grid and islanded (with many hours of battery as well). I’ve told my neighbors they should come over during outages. People understand what A/C means here in this state. This family shouldn’t have been blind-sided by the problem. It would have been his inability to get out of bed that limited options.
I just want to point something out since it hasn’t been said.
When it’s so hot that your body is shutting down, you’ve already been well past the point of being able to think straight and make critical judgements.
Obesity aside, many people would fail to seek help not realizing they’re in a life of death situation to begin with. You’re so hot you must find yourself sitting or lying down unable to do jack shit. Need thing you know you’re dying of heat stroke. And sadly, we’re going to see this more and more as climate change kills more people.