anricat
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- Joined
- Feb 20, 2014
Also the temperature checks is got to be the absolute biggest waste of time and effort of anything with this pandemic. Most people who get infected with COVID don't even get a fever. Many don't even have symptoms. And even if they do, the fever is gone by taking a couple of Advil. It's stupid. Of course, that's only one of the stupid things that have now become part of the new normal.
I thought this too until I was waiting for my drink at Starbucks a few weeks ago when an employee came in and took his temp. It beeped and he looked at it, alarmed. He took it again, it beeped. I didn't see the number, but the display was red. Then another employee came over (he looked supervisor-ish). There was a discussion, the temp was taken again. (Meanwhile, they seemed short staffed and I still had no drink.) There was more discussion and I heard a few words here and there ("home" and "test" among them). The employee went outside and sat down. It was a cool day. He looked nervous. He was still out there clutching his green apron when I left. I don't know the end result, but I sort of had second thoughts about temperature checks at that moment. Maybe it only catches one in a thousand (?), but given how many people one person can potentially infect, maybe it's worthwhile.
That said, if DCL is requiring guests over 18 to be vaccinated, it's probably worthless.