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> the French media have a talking point about AC being dangerous because walking into a cool building during a hot day might harm people through "thermal shock"
by seszett 1y ago
> the French media have a talking point about AC being dangerous because walking into a cool building during a hot day might harm people through "thermal shock".
I'd be interested to know on which media you have heard it because I haven't. Maybe some obscure programme on Cnews or some channel like that had an "expert" say that once. Some people will be worried about catching a cold, at most.
- lupusreal 1y agoI read it through HN a few weeks ago, a Wall Street Journal article mentioned it. Maybe the WSJ made it up to make France seem stupid.
- seszett 1y agoMaybe it's also a language problem as "choc thermique" is technically "thermal shock", but the French "choc" doesn't have the medical undertones of English "shock". It just means that you go from hot to cold or the contrary. Anyway it's not common to think that entering a place with AC is actually dangerous.
- impish9208 1y agoI think you’re referring to this post of mine :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657309