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[–]ISaidWhatISaid[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This video is beyond stupid. Thermal testing in luxury hotels? Thermal testing is completely pointless. A lot of Covid-19 patients don't have a fever but they have all of the other symptoms and are still infectuous. Thermal cameras are just a bells and whistles show, they're about creating a false sense of security. Another thing that will happen due to this bullshit thermal testing is that people will start taking Ibuprofen again to suppress fevers - which is exactly what makes Covid-19 worse. Healthy young people have literally died because they took Ibuprofen after coming down with Covid-19 and developing a fever. All the health experts now say that it's better to let the fever take its course because it's a natural immunoresponse from the body trying to fight the virus. There are also stories from people who went to the hospital with a fever, but by the time they got to see a doctor their fever had already dropped because Covid-19 comes in waves. Someone can have a high fever the one moment and no fever the next hour. And no, this will not result in "more responsible/sustainable travel" because entire economies and countries even have come to depend on cheap charter flights and all-in package deals. They're not gonna give that up.

[–]yayblueberries 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You forgot the one thing that makes everything relying on a fever completely fucking stupid: NUMEROUS illnesses and even some body issues that aren't an illness AT ALL can cause a fever/rise in body temperature. Getting a sunburn can give you a fever. Some women get a fever between ovulation and their period. I had a fever on and off with Lyme Disease, which was never CONTAGIOUS.

If people want to lose business by being this retarded, then fine. But the second somebody is accused of having Covid-19 when they've tested negative and they have some other health issue or a normal body doing normal body things, a shitshow should occur.