Coronavirus **support** thread
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Aug 2020
4:29pm, 13 Aug 2020
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um
JR - try googling it. Your temperature is checked before entry into the shelter. medicalxpress.com google.co.uk |
Aug 2020
4:31pm, 13 Aug 2020
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
I am not sure why I keep watching this thread it gets so hostile 
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Aug 2020
4:31pm, 13 Aug 2020
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BexleyKev
JR we don’t have them here so, no need to worry about them however, I suspect the risk of being locked inside one are quite low and risk of any incident happening even lower considering where they are.
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Aug 2020
4:37pm, 13 Aug 2020
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EvilPixie
BBC Almost 300 people have tested positive for Covid-19 following an outbreak at a factory which makes M&S sandwiches. Almost 300 people have tested positive for Covid-19 following an outbreak at a factory which makes M&S sandwiches. huge factory with 2100 employees but that's the 3rd this week that I have read as having cases but the factory actually doing everything right and more |
Aug 2020
4:46pm, 13 Aug 2020
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larkim
Whether a bus stop does it or not, I've been temp checked in two situations so far - at a car dealership (presumably if I'm hot they'd not sell me a car) and at the pool at Centerparcs. I would have been denied entry if I'd been too hot, no idea what their protocols would have been if I'd had to sprint to the pool venue because I'd had to dash back for something forgotten and then overheated because I'd just arrived in the pool area, masked up, overdressed etc. I suspect I would have been denied my swim. It is completely flawed as a filtering approach, but *lots* of workplaces have bought the skin temp "guns" (I seem to recall an episode of "inside the factor" in their C19 editions which showed a few proudly showing off their thermal imagining etc). And plenty of airports in far east were using such simplistic approaches to filter entries into the country. So accepting everything that fozzy says about the fundamentally irrational use of such a simplistic way of measuring C19 risk, there are some bodies who are weighing it up and deciding that if it filters 1 C19 sympomatic sufferer from entering somewhere then it is worth doing. I suppose the key for most of those uses is what happens after a temp > 37.5 (or whatever) is discovered. Do they attempt to filter out for people wearing too many clothes, having just run, etc etc. And do they allow for a re-test. Or do they simply say "you're out"? |
Aug 2020
4:52pm, 13 Aug 2020
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Fragile Do Not Bend
The place where I do yoga uses one of those guns to measure your skin temp. On one of hottest days of the year it gave a reading for me of 34.9 so it doesn’t look likely it’ll give me a fail anytime soon!
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Aug 2020
4:57pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,357 posts
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run free
JR - I believe iPhone predictive texting is adding in stuff......have to be much more careful before posting when using your iPhone predictive text.
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Aug 2020
5:00pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,358 posts
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run free
Singapore uses temperature sensors when you enter the airport customs, hotels, some malls, and government buildings. Seems to have worked okay. They have had the temp sensors since Bird flu and then SARS in the airports
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Aug 2020
5:01pm, 13 Aug 2020
4,975 posts
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DoricQuine
I had my annual checkup at the hospital eye clinic today, it was due in March. I got a call yesterday to confirm no-one in my household was displaying Covid symptoms or had been in contact with anyone confirmed with Covid. Only me allowed into hospital so hubby had to just go for a walk while I was in (I get my pupils dilated so can't drive after). Mask to be worn throughout, hands sanitized on entry to hospital and again on entry to eye clinic. Waiting room chairs widely spaced and wiped down immediately whenever patient stood up, Got peripheral fields, visual acuity, pressures and retinal scan done then free to go, so in less than 40 minutes. Normally I am there for up to 3 hours. Consultant will study results and I will get the report sent to me and a follow up appointment made only if necessary. My glaucoma is well controlled so I don't anticipate being called back so seems an efficient way to tackle the backlog IMO. |
Aug 2020
5:10pm, 13 Aug 2020
11,057 posts
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geordiegirl
As I said << I ran in HK was very very hot I was melting my temp was the lowest it recorded all the time I was there. At work we have them in some sites and if someone records high they are asked to sit somewhere safe for 15min then retested. If they remain high they are advised to go home and get checked out. Like a lot of things if you are happy to try to do your best to prevent a spread you will if not you’ll do what you feel is appropriate. |
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