[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 17:38:23 (-0400), Kurt Huhn wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)
>
> > medical profession as newsworthy stories in order to try to get a
> > message across to the general public because the professionals feel the
> > problem is getting bad enough to warrant discussion)
> 
> Or are looking for something sensationalist enought to grab your
> attention on the nightly local news, which is probably closer to the
> truth.

There are an AWFUL lot of more critical medical issues deserving even
more attenion -- if they can focus on water intoxication then they think
it's a problem worth the effort on.

Most likely it's because they think this is such a silly problem that
should not exist in the first place and it's only become an issue
because so many people have mis-interpreted other wide-spread advice and
gotten themselves into this unnecessary trouble in the first place.
It's also "easy in theory" to fix just by giving more correct advice.

You and I might know that counter-propaganda doesn't usually have the
desired effect, but we are talking about PR and media people doing the
interpretation here....  :-)

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