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Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you're going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So
by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you're going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So it's death by heat or mosquito.
(I chose mosquito since at least I can sleep with them buzzing around.)
edit: planning on getting insect screens soon. Thanks for comments pushing me to.
- ekianjo 3y agoMosquito nets have been a thing for a very long time
- gretch 3y agoPerhaps also get some screens for windows. Very common in the US even in areas with low mosquitos
- probably_wrong 3y agoI can vouch for a cheap, adhesive insect screen mesh for your windows. I mean, you can go for an expensive one too, but the cheap one has been enough for me and made my AC-free summer much more bearable.
- wenc 3y agoMosquito screens on windows, or mosquito nets may help.
- ImprovedSilence 3y agoyeah insect screens are pretty ubiquitous in the US. Also any home ive been in that was built in the 80s or earlier seemed to have a whole house fan, or at least be setup much better for airflow. Such building features seemed to be lost since AC became the norm and not the exception.
- code_duck 3y agoSeveral years ago I knew an epidemiologist who studied elephantiasis in Egypt. It is acquired by living in unscreened house and being bit by mosquitoes hundreds of times each night. Victims end up in truly awful situations like having to transport their testicles in a wheelbarrow. Completely serious.
- shrubble 3y agoIf you stand the fan noise, mosquitoes can be caught and trapped by a fan that blows a draft across an entrance that is stronger than their wings.
- bevesce- 3y agoFor me it's motorbikes instead of mosquitos. There is no way I could sleep uninterrupted with open windows