Taking Temperature

Anonymous032819 · ‎03-29-2019

A lot of places are implementing the requirement of taking a person's temperature before a service is done.

Is this providing a false sense of security?

The reason that I ask that is because one can have the virus, and not have an elevated temperature.

Just because someone registers 98.6 on the thermometer, doesn't mean that they don't have the virus.

So, is the act of scanning someone's forehead, just to make us feel better, "Covid theater", if you will?

I'm all for wearing masks and not touching each other, but taking temperature?

I'm admittedly on the fence about.

Discuss.

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Peaches McPhee · ‎04-19-2010

I agree that it is not 100%, but it is better than nothing, I guess.

-- pro-aging --

Rochester, New York

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
A lot of places are implementing the requirement of taking a person's temperature before a service is done.

Is this providing a false sense of security?

The reason that I ask that is because one can have the virus, and not have an elevated temperature.

Just because someone registers 98.6 on the thermometer, doesn't mean that they don't have the virus.

So, is the act of scanning someone's forehead, just to make us feel better, "Covid theater", if you will?

I'm all for wearing masks and not touching each other, but taking temperature?

I'm admittedly on the fence about.

Discuss.

I'm on the fence about it, too. I think other steps are much more effective. But it's easy, so I guess what the hail.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Kitlynn · ‎03-09-2010

At the two places I have had my temperature taken have been the type they just point at your forehead and it digitally takes it. I think the theory is that when there is some sort of virus like the flu, cold or anything else people are more contagious if they have a fever so they are using it as a precaution.

Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

What has been known to happen here in Arizona is if someone has been sitting in their car they might not have the ac on if it's only for a couple of minutes. They then get called in and after walking in the sun to the building they get their temperature is taken and it could be near 100. Then after sitting in the ac for a few minutes it comes back down to normal.

Vivian · ‎03-11-2010

I had pneumonia last summer. I went to my family doctor and to an infectious disease specialist. Not once did I have a fever yet my x-rays told a different story. Sure, if one has a fever that can indicate an infection, but not having a fever means nothing,

Janey2 · ‎06-07-2010

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine it is possible to be infected with no fever, especially in the first few days

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

Apart from staying totally isolated I don’t believe there’s any one thing that guarantees safety, but I haven’t seen anything saying it’s harmful. Nor do I think it’s an invasion of privacy.

I’m favoring lots of potential signs and barriers - would like to think the country isn’t going to solve its overpopulation by killling off another 100000 corona victims.

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

@Kitlynn wrote:
At the two places I have had my temperature taken have been the type they just point at your forehead and it digitally takes it. I think the theory is that when there is some sort of virus like the flu, cold or anything else people are more contagious if they have a fever so they are using it as a precaution.

That may or may not be true for other diseases but one of the biggest problems with defeating CV19 is that many that test positive do not exhibit any symptoms and fever is a symptom.

Even among those that do exhibit symptoms it is believed they are highly contagious days before symptoms appear.

Temperature taking may prevent anyone with a fever from entering a premises but it in no way assures that someone with a "normal" temperature that is allowed in is not a carrier.

The eyes through which you see others may be the same as how they see you.

QueenDanceALot · ‎04-18-2013

It screens some infected people but not everyone. There is nothing that would. Anyone I know in the healthcare field has their temperature taken each day before they enter the building where they work.

Outside of taking a test each time, one that would give an accurate instant result (and I don't think the instant result tests have a good track record), I don't know what would be better.

Bottom line at this point. We should all assume we are carriers so wear masks and distance ourselves.