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Originally Posted by mousquet
Yup! Like you have to put a sweater on to get in their homes, so you don't catch a cold in July/August in Virginia...
I agree, it's really silly . . . .
I find it great to reassure elderly people. So they know they will wake up the next morning when they go to bed at night.
It's been scary to lose many of them just because of a few days of heatwave.
Remember we're all likely to grow badly old someday. So taking care of our elders is taking care of ourselves, somehow.
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As the representative "old person" in this crowd, let me say that most "old people" prefer air temperatures warmer than their younger fellows. That's why so many of us move to Florida or Arizona. Personally, I find myself more frequently cold than I used to be and one of the coldest places I regularly go is the air condtioned grocery stores in Arizona. They are so cold I hate grocery shopping from late spring to early autumn when they have it on. Some other places like restaurants and so on can also be severely over-cooled but I always assume that's for the comfort of the folks working in the kitchen.