700 people drop dead from the heat in Pakistan

[viper37]

It's Ramadan, so that explains a lot, with most people not drinking and eating all day long.

Doesn't it have an exception for the sickly and infirm?

yes, but even healthy people can suffer from heatstroke if they don't drink enough.  And since there's an heatwave, many people probably think they can do it, but simply can't cope with the extraordinary factor.

[Razgovory]

Well, 14,000 of them, but like Marty said, third world problems.

I see your slur and raise you 9,000 similarly dead Germans

Two things:  You might have noticed that 9,000 is less then 14,000.  Second, they are all still goddamn Euros.

[Valmy]

Two things:  You might have noticed that 9,000 is less then 14,000.  Second, they are all still goddamn Euros.

The temperatures were far higher over the normal ones for France than for Germany.

But concede the second point