Originally Posted by
Adam Smith
AwardBee , great post
As
Bohemian1 pointed out upthread (or in some other thread), one can also get hot from running to a gate. I can also think of many airports with poor temperature control or no air conditioning. Is it reasonable to deny someone boarding because they had to sprint to make a tight connection, or because the airport is poorly ventilated?
T&T Markets (which is a division of Loblaws) was doing the temperature screening of shoppers. They stop after discovered that at some stores when it was hot outside and they had a lineup there were turning away a good percentage of people not because they were sick but because it was hot outside.
If you have a high temperature there are any number of over the counter medications you can take that will artificially bring your temperature down. So your not going to catch people who are sick with this test. What is the point.