A dramatically sad story to read in 2021 that feels like it happened in 1421. No, I don't think mandatory CO alarms would help here...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-carbon-monoxide-poisoning
@kravietz the only thing that could help would be a proper public sector/social safety net *and* regulators with enough clout to put pressure on private companies to either keep the damn power on or provide facilities at their expense to keep people safe when it does go off (to be fair UK Power Networks and SSE Networks do seem to help communities out more when power cuts happen)
Note the root cause here: basically, a whole family performs suicide by voluntary asphyxiation, on top of that holy water (!), and there's not a single person who would say "hey, open the door".
This indicates a dramatic gap in basic civilisation acumen - I can't even imagine anyone in the most disadvantaged community in UK or EU doing the same thing.
That's the same caliber of stories that we read during Trump about people literally drinking bleach etc.
