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Dr. Farhana Sultana Jul 30, 2023

No, your body cannot build tolerance to endless extreme heat. Unless you’re a soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghoul. The shite these ghouls try to peddle in late-stage capitalism to the masses just beggars belief.

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Avi Rappoport (avirr)Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana “People who live in hot environments for most of their lives are already acclimatized,” he added. But those who live in cooler environments can get there with some training. It can typically take about a week or two to become fully acclimatized, experts say.

Ya think?

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Urban Hermit Jul 31, 2023

@avirr @farhanasultana
Realistically this temp tolerance is like 4-7°F. And that is transitioning from thinking 77°F is a little warm to feeling like 84°F is warm but doable. It is not valid for the extreme end of the scale, and people dying in heat related deaths would not survive repeatedly "almost dying" to acclimate. Who ever wrote this should feel deep shame.

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Probably Paul

@Urban_Hermit
@avirr
@farhanasultana It is actually true to a very limited extent (far less so than this author implies) that people can acclimatize to higher temperatures. But that's actually another reason why extreme and unprecedented heat is so dangerous: those not used to it are at greater risk. People from hotter climates laughing at how disruptive last summer was to the British, was amusing. I'm a Brit and even I chuckled at some of the jokes being made at our expense. But many died in those record-breaking 40°C temperatures.