Hmmm.... This could be an interesting collection of information, but I’m not sure what the purpose would be. If TSA continues with this unintelligent tact of shoe X-Ray, I personally would prefer all airports to use hard cold tiled floor covering, the colder the better. To highlight my reason, realize there are varying degrees of personal hygiene through out the world. There are also many people in this world that do not wear stocking or other secondary foot coverings. So now all these people are asked to remove their shoes and walk barefoot and/or stocking foot across the same small section of flooring. Imagine what sanitation level is on the floor at a terminal that is primarily concentrating on international flights, let’s say at the LAX International Terminal.

Fortunately there are hard cool tiled floors at most airport screening locations. I can’t begin to imagine what sort of infection incubation and breeding would be going on in warm textured area such as carpeted flooring. Also with hard cold tiled flooring you can easily see when a passenger is leaving tracks of body fluids on the floor. Hopefully when this happens TSA gets the lane closed and the floor cleaned before too many passengers have stepped through this. Yes there have been instances where passengers have had bleeding infection on their feet.

Thankfully the flooring is a bit on the chilly side but it should be colder. Viruses and bacteria don’t survive well in a cold environment. Until TSA wakes up from this folly shoe inspection, I say keep the floor tiles chilled. Hhhmmm I wonder if the CDC knows what’s going on at the US airports?