They were all sick because they were living in apartments without heat. And then, in my mind's eye, I multiplied all those coughing people in the waiting room by a factor of 1000, because certainly for every person that came into our office coughing and seeking legal services, there were 1000 who did not come. And I imagined an entire city sick and coughing because of the lack of heat. And you'll notice that the title refers to dead radiators, not cold radiators. Cold radiators means there's no heat.
Dead radiators means there's no heat forthcoming.
So it was a situation where I saw a great deal of human despair, and we did what we could to fight it. As you know, on the rare occasion when the U.S. media even mention Puerto Rico, the independence movement might as well be invisible. Puerto Ricans, we're told, want either statehood or the status quo. Those are the only options presented. Those advocating independence, when acknowledged at all are portrayed as terrorists, or as having links to terrorists.