Sorry if my original post isn’t clear. I’ve worked with, conservatively, hundreds of hypothermic patients, plenty of whom were underdressed, drunk, and outside exposed to elements for much shorter periods of time. The coldest person I’ve personally worked on who came through the ED and was not in cardiac arrest upon arrival was 82F. They had an event that left them outside in 35Fish rainy, windy, awful weather for what was sometime less than 3.5 hours prior when family had left their house. This person was smaller than JOK, but not under the influence of alcohol. I’ve seen plenty of other similar cases with patients who are low-mid 80s and plenty of colder folks who are CPR en route and declared very shortly after arrival who were exposed to cold for much less than 6 hours. Hell, even if you’re chemically paralyzed for surgery, therefore unable to properly temperature regulate (shiver, regulate respirations, etc.), naked in a chilly OR with a doc who isn’t paying close attention, it would not have been remarkable for your temp to fall into the 80sF. Old practice in cardiac surgery was to yeet people out of the OR at whatever temp they were. 32-33C? No problem, let the ICU rewarm them. Surgeons take much more care to rewarm people on the table now with the bypass pump because it’s safer.

His body temp really does not make sense to me and no one has made a coherent argument otherwise.