Me: takes tylenol
Immune System:
My immune system this weekend: also, we have to eject everything from your body any way possible.
Me: …
My immune system: hope you didn’t eat spicy.
99% of the time, a fever kills the bacteria then lowers. You’ll be fine, go take a nap.
Ok, but I can’t survive above 38.C for very long as well
I had a fever over 38 °C for a couple weeks once. It was fine, just hot.
The way the text and image in this specific meme are utilized in the same context as the original source of the meme is refreshing. I feel like I see this meme template used in weird ways that kinda-work-but-not-really more than other templates.
Anyway, good quality well made meme, got me laugh
TIL the reason for high temperature
You can’t survive an internal >42C.
You can a 38c.
I generally agree with metric superiority, but 38° is such a random temperature. Whereas if you’re over 100 you’re too hot. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature unit. Fight me.
I agree when it comes to weather as well. 100 is too hot to be outside and 0 is way too cold to be outside. You don’t have to have decimal places on thermostats
0C for freezing is better than 32F though. Then you can count by 5s and 10s in celcius for weather till you hit 30. Above that is hot. Having a range of 30 points on the thermometer for weather is easier to gauge than something that goes across almost double the number of points.
20 is the end of cool. Any more than that is in hot range for me.
When I’m talking about weather, I don’t necessarily care about the freezing point of water though, I care about the temperatures at which I feel uncomfortable or are in potential danger.
At the end of the day though, I think it really just comes down to what you grew up with using. I’m comfortable with Fahrenheit because that’s what I grew up with, people who grew up using Celsius are comfortable with that, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It just means there might be a translation step when talking to people of different backgrounds, which is okay.
For sure, I agree it all comes down to what you’re used to. To answer your point about the freezing point of water, it is pretty important especially if you’re monitoring for ice on the road or preparing your house (pipes, etc.) for it. That’s basically my reference to decide I’m not leaving today and prepping my house instead.
Celsius isnt too bad imo, you know the reference points by the time you are in elem school.
36-37 normal, 37-38 elevated, 38-39 fever, 39-40 high fever, 40-41 very high fever, 41-42 okay, stop, really, 42+ shouldve listened
