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Experts reveal link between heatwaves and dementia (www.bbc.com)
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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

South Florida has entered the chat

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah seriously though our uk heatwaves barely reach the average summer temp in most of the US, either this article is ridiculous or 80% of the world's population need to move.

Also we're only noticing now? Surely there's a huge disparity in elder health between say us and Italy which is routinely hotter than our heatwaves - ive always been lead to believe Italy has the healthiest old people, though that does mostly come from olive oil adverts...

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's anglos. It's always anglos. In the northern hemisphere the idiot belt is the southern regions. In The southern hemisphere it's the northern regions. White anglos aren't meant to be that close to heat

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we're going to get into weird racism based on ethnic origin and geographic location then sorry but I'm out, I don't want people to think anything I said supports or agrees with the ideals of ethnic segregation which you seem to be preaching.

I do not believe there is any scientific evidence or social trends which show white people can't live in the south or black people shouldn't live in North America and Europe, the agenda you have of keeping people sorted into restricted locations based on ethnicity is vile to me and disappointing to see on lemmy.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mate, if you think me talking smack about florida and qld translates to 'black people should't live in northern hemispheres' then THAT is entirely an invention of your own malformed thought processes

Leave me the fuck out of your disease