In Romania, the greatest threat to life today is not poverty, climate change or al-Qa'eda. It's moving air. Fans, air conditioning and open windows are not - as I had thought - useful mechanisms to generate a nice breeze, or give a little respite as summer temperatures climb to around 40 degrees. They are weapons of mass destruction.
I first noticed this phenomenon last summer. Romania has extreme, continental weather, and I suggested to my Romanian boyfriend - quite reasonably, I thought - that we purchase a fan. He shifted uncomfortably, which, given that we were sweltering through every night in a stuffy room, I found odd. Nonetheless I persisted, and after a few abortive trips to the department store, a fan was acquired.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4197177/Where-draughts-are-truly-dangerous.html
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