“I live in a hot place. Thus, even when it’s raining out, the buildings are blasting A/C.”
I was trying to figure out why the a/c was blasting when it was raining :)!
In E”Y, that would never happen, since it only rains when it’s cold. I think that in the US, it is also pretty rare to have the a/c blasting when it’s raining.
I can hear how that can be somewhat unhealthy, but I can’t imagine that it qualifies as pikuach nefesh for most people. If it really did, they would not have the a/c blasting (there are still places in the world where people don’t use a/c, so it obviously is possible).
You are probably right that this is something you have to be concerned about, but most people dont.
That being said, you last paragraph sums it up well:
“If you want to go to shul badly enough, then you will, regardless of the weather and even if it doesn’t make sense. For men, there is an extra sense of responsibility to join the minyan too.
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