Mutual Aid - English/Spanish hypothermia and frostbite fliers
So I found these handy information sheets in English and Spanish from the CDC: https://dchealth.dc.gov/publication/hypothermia-frostbite-guidance. Please, if you can afford to make copies of these and hand them out to Evanston newcomers (including, as I've been posting about, recent Central American/Carribean immigrants), please do so. It looks like our very cold snap is going to start on Saturday afternoon or evening and improve again on Wednesday. We can help ensure that newcomers will know when they need to seek shelter or medical care due to cold exposure during this period in case they mistake dangerous cold for regular cold.
I'll reiterate here the point I've made elsewhere, which is that for people used to tropical temperatures, anything under 32 degrees farenheit just feels painfully cold. You can't really distinguish 28 degrees from 2 degrees until you're sick. A lot of folks from warmer climates won't be able to tell when they're in danger as oppposed to just uncomfortable, and we're all better off just warning people and providing information resources before there are problems than we are waiting until folks end up dead or in the hospital.
Another Redditor is helping me translate text for a little flier on the upcoming dangerous temperatures as well as the locations and phone numbers of Cook County warming centers into Spanish. I'll post both the English and the Spanish texts of this here tomorrow. Please consider printing that out and distributing it as well.