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If you put a single drop of boiling water in the palm of your hand you'll be fine. If you pour a cup of boiling water in the palm of your hand you might need to go to urgent care.
Lightning superheats the air around it, but not in a sustaining way. Given the speed of the discharge the heat of a strike isn't necessarily fatal.
There are indirect strikes where lightning hits near you and electricity flows back up through your body, but direct strikes can also be survived.