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macrominutes · 132w

Cold kills roughly 20 times more people every year than heat does. Humans do fine in the heat, they don’t do well at all in the cold. The dropping like flies claim is not backed up by any evidence...

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You do know why wet bulb temperature of 35 becomes dangerous, right?

Because sweating stops working as a heat management mechanism due to physics.

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macrominutes · 132w

Yes I am, and yet humans still find ways to cool off in hot areas. We have been living in every climate of the world for at least 15,000 years. Likely much longer, and even with all of our modern inventions. Cold still kills 20 times more people than heat does. It’s much easier to escape the h...