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Go stand in that heat for 5 hours. Go ahead we will wait for you to report back on how easy it was to survive.
I mean, I've worked in agriculture pulling weeds in those temps and setting up irrigation lines. It was literally 30° F hotter in my job where I stand in front of the kitchen door a couple weeks ago. It's a far cry from comfortable, especially if you don't have access to water, but I can't imagine dying from it, absent some other health condition that was aggravated by it.
Also, just to be clear, I absolutely think it's abusive to leave an inmate in such conditions without access to water and shade, I'd just be surprised to hear it was fatal in an otherwise healthy young person.
A person working in hot conditioms has the ability to back out and find AC and shade if they are starting to feel heat sick. A prisoner just suffers.
It amazes me how incapable of a little empathy some people are. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Welcome to working in agriculture, where you don't get to do this, unless you can afford losing your job. Keep on telling me how it is in a job you've obviously never worked, though.
I'm just guessing it's a bit better to actually survive by walking off the job if needed than to just drop dead in a field. But, what do I know? I'm just a dumb heat stroke survivor from the south.
Maybe you're right. Maybe a prisoner dying in a concrete cell is the same thing as having a job outside. Thanks for the enlightened conservatism.
How on earth is this enlightened conservatism to point out that these are not fatal temps for an otherwise healthy individual? I guess the whole population of the third world that lives in the tropics and doesn't have air conditioning just have superior genes according to you? Fucking hell, literally millions of people around the world live in conditions where they see temperatures as high, or even worse, and you want to pretend like it's saying "Well this guy should have just been stronger and worked harder," to point out that these conditions are generally not fatal for a person without other issues.
No, they are not good conditions, and the state has an obligation to provide decent conditions to all those who are incarcerated, but it's asinine to act as though healthy individuals routinely drop dead from spending several hours at 96°F or higher in high humidity environments in absence of some aggravating condition.
Shit I didn't realize you're a medical doctor or have a degree researching heat effects on humans!?