From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2018-08-03, JAB  wrote:   
   > The German war against drafts   
   >   
   > Fresh air or deathly drafts? Germans’ belief in the myth that breezes   
   > make you sick is completely overblown. This Handelsblatt editor is hot   
   > and bothered.   
   > ...   
   > ...   
   > ...   
   > As temperatures rise across Germany, there’s a heated battle brewing   
   > on the trains: It’s a war of the drafts.   
   >   
   > Many Germans, especially older ones, will do anything they can to   
   > avoid Durchzug, the word for a draft of air moving through a closed   
   > space. Air movement gives you a cold or the flu or a stiff neck, they   
   > believe. So they keep the windows on the train closed even as   
   > temperatures reach egg-cooking levels.   
   >   
   > Many reasonable people know that colds are caused by viruses, the   
   > movement of air on an overheated body cools it, and that opening   
   > windows is the only way to not be boiled alive. And yet, the Durchzug   
   > believers are in control, closing all the windows and forcing the rest   
   > of the passengers to stew in their own sweat.   
   >   
   > https://global.handelsblatt.com/opinion/german-war-against-dra   
   ts-durchzug-949115   
      
   Yeah, but this is the nation that invented the platform toilet.   
      
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