[friendly]

I am having a hard time believing that 10,000 people have died from the heat. Some one explain that to me, please.

I just got back from southern France (relgious visit to Lourdes) There are very few air conditioners in the France and the entire population in on vacation in August (including apparantly the complete hospital system). No one cares for Grandma in her airless oven/apartment.

By a new law, no one works more than 35 hours a week, more than 44 weeks per year. The hospitals (like every this else in France) are essentially de facto closed.

[maica]

And our fifth-column media will not utter a word of this information. Sounds like every August could be a culling season, if everyone leaves home except the elderly. I wonder what the official life span is for France?