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The thugs who couldn’t tell bosoms from bombs may now begin medically testing folks at airports. Yes, astoundingly stupid as it sounds, “[a]irlines have been pushing for temperature checks at airports in order to mitigate passenger fears about the novel coronavirus…” And so Our Rulers are scheming for the always-incompetent Thieves and Sexual Assailants to “thermal scan” travelers and bar those who register 100.4 F degrees or higher from flying.

Not that anyone takes the “[s]cientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)” seriously, but even these jokers are “opposed to screening passengers at airports.” They’ve also “tried to persuade the White House to reconsider the plan. Currently, the plan contemplates turning over people who have a fever at airports to the CDC.”

Yo, airlines: if that threat doesn’t drastically reduce your business, I don’t know what will. Why don’t you try defending your customers’ rights and liberties for a change instead of placating the Nervous Nellies among them?

“Thermal scanning as proposed is a poorly designed control and detection strategy as we have learned very clearly,”  said Dr. Martin Cetron, the CDC’s director of global mitigation and quarantine, in an email to DHS officials earlier this month. 

And he knows whereof he speaks, at least in this one instance:

The agency screened 30,000 passengers at the beginning of the outbreak and did not detect a single covid-19 case…

Hmmm. Sounds as if “thermal scanning” is right up the TSA’s alley then: the agency has gate-raped billions of passengers in its two decades but never once detected a single terrorist.

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