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Old Jun 4, 2012 | 9:30 am
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Originally Posted by WillCAD
Why are these folks getting swabbed 100% of the time, when people without medical devices or service animals are not swabbed 100% of the time? Seems discriminatory to me.
It's not even remotely discriminatory. The hand swab replaces the swab of the device which is necessary because the device doesn't go through the x-ray. Pax is free to run a device through the x-ray, but almost all manufacturers recomend against it.
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