People laugh when I say we owe an immense debt to Willis Carrier but people die during intense heat waves.

I went without air conditioning in this house for many years but after a couple of summers where we seemed to go from 'um, spring?' to the corner of Gehenna Avenue and Muspelheim Street by express I gave up. Even the cats are happier.

By way of distraction from your virus, have you ever seen, to your recollection, Petr Weigl's Winterreise?