NBC News has identified 19 deaths since 2013 that occurred at Airbnb properties and are alleged to have involved carbon monoxide poisoning as the company faces multiple lawsuits.
Regulations restrict freedoms. That’s the absolute extent of their logic. In this case, it would infringe on the freedom to rent unsafe lodging to people.
I think the first ammendment is freedom of speech and the second ammendment is the right to shoot guns. So you have the right to be an asshole and get shot for it, and if you were wrongly shot, someone else can shoot the person who shot you. Perfect harmony!
Yeah the same ones who espouse InDiViDuAl FrEeDuMB and DoNt tREaD oN mE but who drone about what other people choose to identify as, try to stop them, and what literally in no way impacts them.
It’s strange though that it is not required in private homes, and rbnb are basically available private homes for rent (or at least it started with that)
The moment it’s for rent it’s required. Pretty crafty requirement. In my opinion it should also be mandatory in owner-inhabited housses - it’s a very cheap way to prevent pretty unpleasant death.
First of all, a death by monoxide is not unpleasant. The thought of death is but monoxide just puts you to sleep (for ever)…
Now… I get that detectors are great, and I also agree that people should get them! But there’s a huge leap from that, and to make them mandatory.
I also get that is it required to have in commercial rooms but airbnb is originally a service to rent a room in your house or maybe your apartment when you dont need it. Its up to people themselves to choose if they want to have a detector and also up to the customer to chose if they want to rent something without a detector
Lastly, they can simply bring their own detector with them if they want one.
Doesnt matter here. Rent is rent, means youre in for the safety of the renters. So these detectors are required, period. No “but its just a room” or “just for the weekend”. Youre responsable for the safety.
I think it’s required by law now in Ontario, Canada too. It applies to every residential building with an attached garage, fuel burning appliances, or a fireplace.
It was put in place after an officer died along with her husband and two kids back in 2008 from carbon monoxide poisoning.
More places should have alarm requirements, imo. It’s not like you can smell it, see it, taste it, or hear it. Carbon monoxide is called a silent killer for a good reason.
There’s no local ordinance over the ocean? Here (Belgium) it’s mandatory for anything rented or commercially used.
Freedom and all that
That’s what I don’t get - we aren’t less able to rent shit, simply there’s some requirements to do so. They have the freedom to die of co poisoning?
Regulations restrict freedoms. That’s the absolute extent of their logic. In this case, it would infringe on the freedom to rent unsafe lodging to people.
Yeah that would not go well with my personal rule #1; don’t be an asshole to others.
I think the first ammendment is freedom of speech and the second ammendment is the right to shoot guns. So you have the right to be an asshole and get shot for it, and if you were wrongly shot, someone else can shoot the person who shot you. Perfect harmony!
/lol
Our conservatives do not like regulations. wE HaVe fReEDuMb!
The same ones that censor books and prevent abortion? MhHHhhhh
Yeah the same ones who espouse InDiViDuAl FrEeDuMB and DoNt tREaD oN mE but who drone about what other people choose to identify as, try to stop them, and what literally in no way impacts them.
Imo this is one regulation that would be both silly to implemet and impossible to check on
It’s strange though that it is not required in private homes, and rbnb are basically available private homes for rent (or at least it started with that)
The moment it’s for rent it’s required. Pretty crafty requirement. In my opinion it should also be mandatory in owner-inhabited housses - it’s a very cheap way to prevent pretty unpleasant death.
First of all, a death by monoxide is not unpleasant. The thought of death is but monoxide just puts you to sleep (for ever)…
Now… I get that detectors are great, and I also agree that people should get them! But there’s a huge leap from that, and to make them mandatory.
I also get that is it required to have in commercial rooms but airbnb is originally a service to rent a room in your house or maybe your apartment when you dont need it. Its up to people themselves to choose if they want to have a detector and also up to the customer to chose if they want to rent something without a detector Lastly, they can simply bring their own detector with them if they want one.
Doesnt matter here. Rent is rent, means youre in for the safety of the renters. So these detectors are required, period. No “but its just a room” or “just for the weekend”. Youre responsable for the safety.
I am not trying to argue how it is in your country. This is a global forum. I am discussing how I feel it should be.
Thats fair. Imo how it is here is good. A renter should feel safe and not have to worry about everything
I think it’s required by law now in Ontario, Canada too. It applies to every residential building with an attached garage, fuel burning appliances, or a fireplace.
It was put in place after an officer died along with her husband and two kids back in 2008 from carbon monoxide poisoning.
More places should have alarm requirements, imo. It’s not like you can smell it, see it, taste it, or hear it. Carbon monoxide is called a silent killer for a good reason.