You do get wet, raincoat or not. The solution is to simply accept that getting from A to B involves interacting with whatever the weather has to throw at you, realising that this won't do you any harm and just getting on with life. Once you're there life becomes so much easier. Get some deodorant [1] if you think you'll smell at the end of your trip. Yes, you might end up a bit sweaty but as long as you're reasonably clean that won't be a problem.

Source: personal experience (I'm Dutch although I live in rural Sweden now)

[1] make it yourself: half baking soda, half potato starch, add liquefied coconut fat and mix, use enough fat to get the consistency of peanut butter. Either dump it in a used deodorant stick (of the screw-up type, first screw it down of course) or just in a glass jar. It'll solidify into a semi-hard mass which can be easily scraped off for use, it is far more effective than the stuff sold in stores and works for a few days.

> The get lots of rain in the Nederlands and somehow they seem to manage just fine. Mudguards fix 60% of the rain issue, the rest is done by a raincoat.

I didn't say it isn't doable, I was pointing out wrong the poster who claimed that 5m in the car is the same as 10m on a bike.

Because even if you are okay with 10m in the rain, it is most certainly NOT equivalent to 5m in the dry.

Even with the rain the amount of days in the Netherlands that the weather is unbearable is extremely low.

Climate is much more extreme in large parts of the USA. Going from extremely cold with snow and windchill, all the way up to extremely warm & dry, or warm and humid, which means you need to take a shower after 2 minutes outside.