With each passing year, the heat becomes a major problem. For those who work in agriculture, cleaning, construction, cooking, tourism, and outdoor activities in general, the heat wave can be fatal.
The city is unprepared in terms of infrastructure, as the architecture is not inclusive enough.
This year, I can walk quickly, but last summer, with limited mobility, I realized how extraordinarily difficult it is for a person with reduced mobility to get from one place to another in general, and in the full sun, it's unbearable.
Bus stations could be a refreshing place, yet the design of what is supposed to guarantee shade barely provides it, if it exists at all.
Passing the street in full sun is also an important aspect and means serious exposure with a simple shopping walk with the carrito de compra.
In the panaderias and kitchens, workers are finishing their shifts, surviving.
I've worked in windowless kitchens. Some are centrally located restaurant kitchens where many cooks are busy feeding tourists.
Working in such a place, with a roaring fire inside and a scorching heat outside, is like dying, but since the bosses have so much power that the workers don't, you end your shift like you're in a war camp, not knowing if you'll be able to wake up tomorrow and put on again that work uniform made from plastic cheap fabric.
Some employers are selling water to their employees. As I was already in the position of having to discuss the right to water at work, and the temperatures indicate a heat wave, I´m curious: Do you have water and conditions at the workplace, as the emergency implies?
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