Originally Posted by
Nucflash
The “poor man’s” answer to countrywide testing (certainly where airline travel is concerned) is temperature checking. Every passenger at every checkpoint, administered by a federal agency. How many pax would this screen out? Not sure...let’s hope than if an individual is 100-plus they already aren’t feeling well enough to travel and are staying home. But very minimum, it will make healthy customers feel more secure getting on the jets. Why aren’t we ALREADY doing this??
Taking temperatures is pointless. You can be infected and contagious more than a week before showing symptoms.
Testing everyone is equally pointless, unless you are doing the antibody test.
Let's say someone goes to the doctor and gets the test, it could likely come back negative. But, as they were waiting to be tested, they were exposed to someone with the virus. A few days later, they become contagious themselves and infect everyone around them, even though they have a certificate that they do not have it.
With the antibody test, it would need be repeated for everyone that comes back negative until they eventually they show positive. It is only a 1-time thing for those that come back positive.
Anti-body testing is the key. But since there are over 30 different strains already and the antibody tests do not take all of these into consideration, those too are pointless.