Oh, my goodness. It’s 90 degrees & surrounding towns so everyone struggles to stay cool & safe.
Come on, really now. All this means is that people can have the common sense to drink lots of liquids (especially water), run the fan on themselves a lot and shower each day, if not twice daily. All this so that the AC can be used for only a few hours a week at best. But NO, they will resort to running and blasting the AC until the next brown-out in their area and the brown out after that, and so on, and so on. Many will smoke their cigarettes or pot, eat salty foods, drink lots of liquor and wear a lot of perfume or cologne. They will avoid remorse by saying “it’s my body, not yours”.
Then they will all complain about the electric bill later. There will be those times when there is something to complain about for real, but few will take them seriously at that point, since they complain all the time. Times when heat waves or droughts kick in and nobody is prepared. Don’t expect the empathy from our government.
I take showers daily, use fans all the time and drink lots of water. I use the AC on a limited basis because I don’t need it 24/7. While it is not possible each place you go, it is always possible to shower at home. But too many people remedy their perspiration by running the AC, as if the perspiration goes away. It doesn’t. It surfaces your body from your inside by way of water, and it will only leave your body by way of water, which is in the form of showers (or baths).
Businesses make their offices and stores feel like meat lockers, booming their air conditioning at over full capacity, especially when it is raining outside.
It turns out that much of this are of laziness. It is so much easier for people to simply turn on the AC at full forces and be done with it. For many people, taking showers is a hassle and too much work. Drinking lots of fluids, particularly water, is meaningless. It is very hard to convince someone to drink water when they eat so many hot foods in the summertime. The strange thing about Americans is that many of us cook a lot more in the summer and buy a lot colder foods in the winter. Soda particularly cola, is the non-alcoholic beverage of choice. In the summertime, the bars are packed more then on the holidays.
Many smokers smoke more in the summer, and feel that it’s a good way to stay skinny, or no chew gum
In the summer, many people wear more make-up, cologne and alcoholic products. This is not a matter of me preaching health. Most people know as much about basic health and hygiene as I do. This is a matter of people wanting to feel like it makes no difference.
The result of all this fashion is bad health. But all you hear from people when they are not sick is “It’s my body and I can do what I want with it. If I die, I die. So what?” But when health problems arise, they don’t want to take responsibility for their lavish lifestyle of fashion and diet, by blaming on generics, heredity, or the environment.
Is it any wonder that obesity, diabetes, heat stroke and other health problems are a bigger issue in the US than any other civilized country worldwide?
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