[dynachrome]

So don't bother doing anything about the borders

signed, Janet Gestpilano

[humblegunner]

People who have been infected very, very recently wouldn't show up on the scanner

Enter Captain Trips.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I don’t know if elementary schools do this anymore, though I would hope so, but they used to have long sinks that all the children had to use once a day to wash their hands before lunch. I still remember the nasty, pink, granular soap crumbs that we had to use, as well as the needle spray sink heads to rinse off with.

However, it is, or at least was, a particularly good way to prevent disease. It would not be terribly inconvenient during an epidemic to set up a temporary hand-washing station just inside of the secure area, that everybody entering or leaving the secure area would have to use.

[Cicero]

Well, the temperature sensors won’t catch all the passengers with flu, but they will catch some of them—maybe as much as half of them. So they are a lot better than doing nothing at all, which seems to be Napolitano’s preference.

[dawn53]

Hmmm...using heat sensors to pick out sick people, didn’t I see that on an episode of Fringe last night?

[Perdogg]

They have those at Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei.