Airport security in a post-COVID-19 world
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Airport security in a post-COVID-19 world
https://thehill.com/opinion/national...covid-19-world
How can this be done? The TSA should offer the program at no cost, or minimal cost — say $25 for five years — to any person who travels three or more times per year, including access to biometric identity verification. A study conducted at the University of Illinois showed that such a program would be cost neutral to the federal government, while enhancing the security of the air system. An added benefit is that it would reduce coronavirus transmission as we transition into a post-COVID-19 world of air travel.
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TSA can help reduce disease transmission by relying on technology for screening people and things and stop with the crotch grabbing and most bag checks. If something in a bag alarms have the traveler remove the items of concern. Require screeners to remove gloves and use hand sanitizer before donning fresh gloves should they need a hands on inspection. Require that TSA provide to the traveler an N95 or equivalent mask if close physical contact is required. Minor adjustments but would go a long ways toward improving passenger health safety.
Better yet require that TSA demonstrate that their Orwellian procedures have prevented one passenger based terrorist attack directly due to TSA checkpoint passenger screening activities. If convincing proof can't be documented then reduce the invasive screening procedures.
Better yet require that TSA demonstrate that their Orwellian procedures have prevented one passenger based terrorist attack directly due to TSA checkpoint passenger screening activities. If convincing proof can't be documented then reduce the invasive screening procedures.
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Has anyone actually been on a flight since the Covid insanity arrived in the US? Are they even using WBI at all or have they returned to 100% WTMD and wand? It seems like the high amount of touching required to resolve WBI alarms is incompatible with the current health guidelines?
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Has anyone actually been on a flight since the Covid insanity arrived in the US? Are they even using WBI at all or have they returned to 100% WTMD and wand? It seems like the high amount of touching required to resolve WBI alarms is incompatible with the current health guidelines?
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Has anyone actually been on a flight since the Covid insanity arrived in the US? Are they even using WBI at all or have they returned to 100% WTMD and wand? It seems like the high amount of touching required to resolve WBI alarms is incompatible with the current health guidelines?
They clearly don't want to get near people (not that most normal TSOs liked that part of the job before COVID-19, but apparently, they are avoiding that part of the job now like, well . . . the plague).
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Won't this be fun:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...es/5174300002/
We’re urging the TSA to begin temperature scans as part of the screening process at the checkpoints,'' Kelly said in an interview with "CBS This Morning."
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If checking people for fever is truly important then it needs to happen at every entry door leading into the terminal, employee and passenger alike. That clearly is not a TSA function.
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Time for the entire TSA system/experience to go
I've posted in another thread and maintain my position that covid-19 is both the opportunity and the right time to basically get rid of TSA as we have known it for 19 years. Time for the entire TSA system/experience to go
Death by covid is a bigger boogeyman than 9/11. I'm not checking the math, but I assume covid has killed more people in NY in the last month than aviation-related terrorism has killed worldwide since the Wright Brothers flew in 1903.
The proposals in this thread are a start, but why not:
Precheck for everyone?
No more touching IDs starting immediately. Star with putting up plexiglass for pax to hold up ID for visual look. Then either proceed to abolishing ID checks (sane but unlikely) or zero-contact biometric ID checks that are free, privacy aware, and have a reasonable no-penalty alternative for those who cannot use them (i.e., holding up their picture ID for no-contact visual inspection by a screener through a plexiglass window).
NoS as an opt-in option for those who can't use WTMD or alarm WTMD, but never for primary screening due to high false alarm rate.
Passenger option to unpack/repack bags that alarm and send them back through x-ray (in a dedicated x-ray lane for secondary screening) to resolve most ambiguous bag alarms. (instead of TSOs <touching> your stuff.)
TSA should have an official, preferably legislatively mandated, goal of zero face-to-face or physical contact with at least 99% of passengers and their belongings. If 99.9% is feasible, that would be even better.
Death by covid is a bigger boogeyman than 9/11. I'm not checking the math, but I assume covid has killed more people in NY in the last month than aviation-related terrorism has killed worldwide since the Wright Brothers flew in 1903.
The proposals in this thread are a start, but why not:
Precheck for everyone?
No more touching IDs starting immediately. Star with putting up plexiglass for pax to hold up ID for visual look. Then either proceed to abolishing ID checks (sane but unlikely) or zero-contact biometric ID checks that are free, privacy aware, and have a reasonable no-penalty alternative for those who cannot use them (i.e., holding up their picture ID for no-contact visual inspection by a screener through a plexiglass window).
NoS as an opt-in option for those who can't use WTMD or alarm WTMD, but never for primary screening due to high false alarm rate.
Passenger option to unpack/repack bags that alarm and send them back through x-ray (in a dedicated x-ray lane for secondary screening) to resolve most ambiguous bag alarms. (instead of TSOs <touching> your stuff.)
TSA should have an official, preferably legislatively mandated, goal of zero face-to-face or physical contact with at least 99% of passengers and their belongings. If 99.9% is feasible, that would be even better.
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