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The latest in the Boston Globes daily fabricated race inequality stories.


Usually when the temperature climbs precipitously in Massachusetts, residents who don’t have air conditioning at home have a range of options to stay cool ― they might go to a public pool, spend the day at a community center, or meander around the mall.

But this year, many of those free and easy-to-access strategies are off the table or feel too risky because of the coronavirus.

Climate change has made extreme heat a feature of summertime in New England, and even before the pandemic, the ability to stay cool was an unequally distributed resource across the state. Now, some community groups fear that COVID-19 will leave lower-income people roasting at home, while wealthier people relax in chilled air or escape the city entirely.

The reason for unequal cooling is one of both cost and city planning. Nationwide, about a fifth of households below the poverty line do not have any air conditioning equipment, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Even if a household has an air conditioning unit, the cost of actually running it may be unaffordable. A quarter of low-income households in Boston spend more than 12 percent of their income on energy bills, making them significantly “energy burdened,” according to a 2016 study from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

“The cost of having air conditioning is a concern, especially this year, when people have been hit so hard,” said Roseann Bongiovanni, executive director of the Chelsea-based climate justice group GreenRoots. “This year, people are really going to be thinking, ‘Do I want to put an AC unit in and jack my bills up, while I have rent to pay and I still might not have my full hours back?‘ ”



I never had an air condition growing up. Didn't even have fans until I was a little older.



I wonder how the Globe will explain this picture they posted to the story below with every apartment having a satellite dish. They typically cost over $100.00 a month. The Globe writes are such dim wits that they didn't understand the optics of this photo. I would have selected a different photo.


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The latest in the Boston Globes daily fabricated race inequality stories.

If the inequality exists, it’s not fabricated.



I never had an air condition growing up. Didn't even have fans until I was a little older.

That’s nice. Generations of people grew up without indoor plumbing or anesthesia during surgery, both of which are considered unthinkable now. Living standards change.


I wonder how the Globe will explain this picture they posted to the story below with every apartment having a satellite dish. They typically cost over $100.00 a month. The Globe writes are such dim wits that they didn't understand the optics of this photo. I would have selected a different photo.


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Well, first off, the girls aren’t at the apartment building with the dishes; they’re next door on the other side of a fence.

Second, DirecTV doesn’t require you to return the dish when you cancel and Dish often doesn’t, either, if the dish is difficult or dangerous to access, which those obviously could be. To illustrate that point, observe that at least one of those balconies has two dishes attached to it. So, all that image shows is that somebody next door in those units could have had an account at some point in the past.

So, tell me again who’s the dimwit who doesn’t understand what’s being shown in a photo.
 
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Well, I'm caucasian. I lived without air conditioning for all of my childhood in Florida and attended non-air-conditioned segregated schools. Then for many of my adult years (at least six) we lived without air-conditioning. But this doesn't change the fact that many people discriminate against other races and foreigners.
 
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If the inequality exists, it’s not fabricated.





That’s nice. Generations of people grew up without indoor plumbing or anesthesia during surgery, both of which are considered unthinkable now. Living standards change.




Well, first off, the girls aren’t at the apartment building with the dishes; they’re next door on the other side of a fence.

Second, DirecTV doesn’t require you to return the dish when you cancel and Dish often doesn’t, either, if the dish is difficult or dangerous to access, which those obviously could be. To illustrate that point, observe that at least one of those balconies has two dishes attached to it. So, all that image shows is that somebody next door in those units could have had an account at some point in the past.

So, tell me again who’s the dimwit who doesn’t understand what’s being shown in a photo.


Your wrong. I know the area. The public housing includes the building with the patios and dish antennas. Not sure if you understand how much direct TV costs a month. Probably over $100.00 My point that you missed is that if you can afford a luxury such as Direct TV then you can purchase a $200.00 dollar air-conditioner.

Your comparison between air-condition and anesthesia is ridiculous. One is a medical necessity and the other a luxury. Air-condition is not a necessity.
 
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The latest in the Boston Globes daily fabricated race inequality stories.








I never had an air condition growing up. Didn't even have fans until I was a little older.



I wonder how the Globe will explain this picture they posted to the story below with every apartment having a satellite dish. They typically cost over $100.00 a month. The Globe writes are such dim wits that they didn't understand the optics of this photo. I would have selected a different photo.


2NYSVOC4RNH4SN7LNFSOQ2XDUU.JPG



Also if you look to the left and to the right you will see an air condition.
 
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Well, I'm caucasian. I lived without air conditioning for all of my childhood in Florida and attended non-air-conditioned segregated schools. Then for many of my adult years (at least six) we lived without air-conditioning. But this doesn't change the fact that many people discriminate against other races and foreigners.


I grew up in the city family of 9. No air conditioning, 1 black and white TV. We didn't know the difference. My point was that the story from the Globe is similar to a lot of their stories in that they try to create a problem when their isn't one.

I want a house on Cape Cod but guess what, probably not going to happen.
 
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Your wrong. I know the area. The public housing includes the building with the patios and dish antennas. Not sure if you understand how much direct TV costs a month. Probably over $100.00 My point that you missed is that if you can afford a luxury such as Direct TV then you can purchase a $200.00 dollar air-conditioner.

Again, you don’t know who there still has an account.

Your comparison between air-condition and anesthesia is ridiculous. One is a medical necessity and the other a luxury. Air-condition is not a necessity.

The people who die during heat waves would beg to differ.
 
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Again, you don’t know who there still has an account.



The people who die during heat waves would beg to differ.


The elderly should always be taken care of. The media didn’t seem overly concerned when elderly sick with Covid were dumped into nursing facilities to infect the rest of the population or when veterans were left to die in in droves in veterans facilities.


Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S.



But let’s rally around free AC for all. I want my summer home on Cape Cod.
 
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yep, I grew up also without A/C. When our family did get it, the A/C was a window unit that was at the other end of the house from my South-facing bedroom. During the Summer, I would sleep on a twin sized bed in my mother's sewing room, with a North-East exposure. There was no duct work and no insulation in the walls.

I saw a picture of that house recently on the 'net. It still had the window A/C unit.
 
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I grew up in the city family of 9. No air conditioning, 1 black and white TV. We didn't know the difference. My point was that the story from the Globe is similar to a lot of their stories in that they try to create a problem when their isn't one.

I want a house on Cape Cod but guess what, probably not going to happen.

My mother never had a color TV until years after I was married. But you know people make choices when they spend their money. I never had a bicycle; that made me sad.

I don't read Globe articles.


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yep, I grew up also without A/C. When our family did get it, the A/C was a window unit that was at the other end of the house from my South-facing bedroom. During the Summer, I would sleep on a twin sized bed in my mother's sewing room, with a North-East exposure. There was no duct work and no insulation in the walls.

I saw a picture of that house recently on the 'net. It still had the window A/C unit.

I hear ya. We lived in a double-wide mobile home early in our marriage. At first we were without air-conditioning and I had terrible headaches. Then we bought a large window unit which we put in a dining room window that faced the living room. We could barely feel it in the living room. Later we bought a large unit for our bedroom. When we left the bedroom door open it didn't cool the other rooms. Life had its ups and downs.
 
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