I’m not saying that cold weather causes colds. I don’t actually know of anyone who says that. But it certainly can lower your resistance to falling ill from infections that you do catch.
Just did a little googling and found that there is a doctor in Wales studying this who hypothesizes that being in cold weather causes nasal vascular constriction which may make it easier to catch a cold.
However, here is a good summary of all of the previous studies showing that being cold and wet does not increase your risk of catching a cold.
But I don’t recall, and haven’t found evidence of, Democrats describing Romney as “the most conservative person in the Senate”, which would have been just as absurd as calling Harris “the most liberal person in the Senate”.
It’s the Republicans’ ritualistic application of the superlative “most liberal” to the current national-ticket Democratic opponent, irrespective of where his/her policies actually fall on the ideological spectrum, that seems weird to me.
I’m still not buying this as the actual cause of the problem after the Omaha rally until it’s verified by people outside of the Trump campaign. It sounds way too much like they’re putting the blame on somebody else instead of admitting they fucked up.
There’s no excuse for this kind of incompetency, a political campaign at this level is supposed to have a grip on this kind of logistics.
I once worked at a caberet type theatre at a location near an airport, where the only access was a narrow country road. One night, a performer had a serious medical emergency and the show was cancelled. They held the audience there, plying them with free food and drinks, until medical help arrived and the actor left in an ambulance because they knew that if everyone tried to drive out at once, they would impede the ambulance.
I used to work in the event industry and although I didn’t handle this kind of logistics, IIRC it’s not that hard. You get all your transportation in place outside the venue while the event is in progress so you aren’t fighting the traffic after the event ends. It’s really really freaking basic.
It’s so basic it makes me wonder how they screwed it up. You’d think the buses that dropped the people off at the rally could’ve just stuck around until the end. Unless they didn’t want to pay them for the extra 3 hours or so, which is the kind of penny wise pound foolish behavior I’d expect from Trumpers.
It’s also possible that they were running the buses round trip, each making multiple runs and there weren’t enough for the whole crowd at once after the rally.
That didn’t really bother me. He’s still a Republican so I can’t expect him to vote for the rival party, I’m just glad that he hasn’t completely swallowed the kool-aide. I’ve never voted for him and likely never will since at this point s the best way to keep the Republican’s from destroying America, voting straight D party line. Although if a truly reprehensible Democratic candidate (e.g. Marion Barry) were nominated I might consider voting for a Hogan-like Republican.
“Presumably the Republican campaign is banking on the expectation that their voters have forgotten any actual facts” is about all that needs to be said. You can just stop there. This has been the case for at least a generation now.
What a bunch of weenies here talking about hypothermia. Do you know only 1500 people die each year of hypothermia in the US? You’re living in fear of something 99.9995% of the population won’t die from.
I bet some of the people last night were wearing coats too. Idiots. People die from hypothermia even with coats. Coats don’t work! Bunch of god damn sheep.
I prefer supporters who don’t die. Losers. Sad. Weak. That’s what they signed up for when they got on the bus, (also the NDAs and heath waivers). Also, stop testing for heart beats. Fake deaths. No testing and death will be over in two weeks, We have a plan, a great best plan. No death. Soon as the weather turns warmer. Soon as the weather turns colder.