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In The Netherlands (not sure if that's specified to my country or to people in general) I often hear people saying that you shouldn't go outside without a jacke
by Avalaxy 12y ago
In The Netherlands (not sure if that's specified to my country or to people in general) I often hear people saying that you shouldn't go outside without a jacket when it's cold, because it will make you sick...
- adambard 12y agoThis is common in Canada (from experience) and probably the US (from watching American TV).
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoIt's actually a common misconception for most of the Western world, I think. It's really a misunderstanding between getting cold (hypothermia, in the worst case) and catching a cold, which is a virus.
- bcj 12y agoIt probably doesn't help that people spend more time inside in close quarters during cold weather.
- kalleboo 12y agoI've heard this in the US, UK, Sweden, Japan... it seems like a universal misconception.
- ceejayoz 12y agoThat one's actually probably correct. http://www.nature.com/news/cold-viruses-thrive-in-frosty-conditions-1.13025 http://www.nature.com/news/cold-viruses-thrive-in-frosty-con... > A team from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, found that low temperatures dampen natural defences against rhinoviruses, the leading causes of seasonal colds, in mice and in human airway cells.
- nerfhammer 12y agoIs that the air temperature or body temperature? Your body thermoregulates and won't change temperature based on what you're wearing until you're experiencing hyper/hypothermia