I entered a very secure building in Los Angeles today, and passed through a series of Covid screening stations to make sure I didn’t carry the virus inside.
Sort of like how we take our shoes off at airports because they might be bombs, and have to give up our water bottles because they might be bombs, which then get thrown in a bin with all the other possible bombs because keeping a bin full of explosives right next to the security line is how you handle suspected bombs.
Surely it should be the aim of terrorists now to blow up the security areas at airports? If they wanted to cause maximum mayhem that would shut down the airports rather than just a plane or two.
This would necessitate a pre security security area, which could be the next target.
Or perhaps there aren't any terrorists at all? Perhaps they were just created to be be able to push through the Patriot Act??
I recall reading a number of years ago that the number of terrorists apprehended at airport security was zero. Ever. Not sure of the legitimacy of that but I can't say that I've heard of anything and I'm sure the media would be making a hoo-hah of it if someone had been picked up.
I've heard and observed the same thing. 20 years of TSA security theatre and not a single terrorist intercepted? Either they're terrible at their jobs or their jobs are pointless. Either way. And yet, they continue.
Because if they go to all the trouble of hypnotize-roofie them to be MK-ultra type suicide bombers, why risk them going through security - they just use them as school shooters instead today? Right? One moves the power needle further into their side of the meter, the other not so much. They caught a shoe bomber in 2022 does nothing to make Biden and Pelosi more powerful or richer.
I remember when they started making us remove our shoes, I said to my wife, "What happens if a guy stashes a bomb in his underwear? Are we all going to have to take our underwear off too?" If so, we'd see a huge uptick in the commando option.
Then it actually happened.
"... terrorist... attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25, 2009."
Still waiting for that edict to be enforced. I picture it every time I'm in the TSA line, which seems to make it move a hair faster.
A few years ago, I had to give up a small bottle of maple butter to bring to my cousin's girlfriend in Europe who loves maple syrup. So I brought a bunch of maple based delicacies. Ii was above the 140g rule - I think something like 200g or so. Very small. Like pablum. When available, amirite?
Anyway.
I should have put it in my shaving bag in my luggage. Next time.
This could all be hilarious if it wasn’t so horrifying. I lived in the 3rd world for a few years and saw jungle justice up close so I’ve feared and loathed the detachment from reason because of what it portends, but this prolonged detour through clowntown is something else.
Are you ok? Sounds like you could be sliding towards hypothermia, caused by global climate change; which has apparently done a 180 and gone back towards the new ice age again. 🙄
Can’t the actors at least get their lines right in the Grand Guignol COVID Theatre Productions?
It would be in vain even if the people using the thermometers knew how to get an accurate reading from them, or had some idea what a normal body temperature range might be. But in this particular case, it was pretty much like they were calling out completely random numbers against Covid: 9! 62! 405,841! –0.037!
And then all the visitors could have written those numbers on pieces of paper, and then there wouldn't be any viruses in the building.
Especially when those thermometers take surface skin temperature, not core body temp. I've asked nurses if they know how those thermometers work and they all say yes. Only one laughed and admitted that they're useless.
Exactly...whole family (wife, toddler) had it recently, no temp except for our toddler. 99.5. One dose of Motrin and in 1 hour, normal not to return. We’ve , literally as a nation and scientific/medical community reverted back to dark ages medicine. I’m 52 and for the first time in my life thinking I may never go back to the doctor (not that I went much anyway).
its a dark age, not just in medicine. Science, reason, education, all have been institutionalized. One form is thought is allowed, all others are to be dismissed, or even criminalized.
Aren''t bodies closer to 98 degress give or take? Were you all c-c-c-cold? I am suprised they still have to measure it manually, can't they just read it from the nano bits they injected (or if you took a nose swab test)? Or is that next week? /s
I lived in SoCal for 15 years. Nice area, nice weather, crazy politics. As John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". In case no has noticed CA is not known as a moral and religious state (like many others as well).
One hot day last summer I visited a chiropractor’s office. The receptionist scanned my forehead and her reading was high. She told me to wait a few minutes and we’d try again. In the meantime I asked if I could use their bathroom. Absolutely not, I could not enter the office with my high temperature! At that point I nearly cried because it was just so stupid. She scanned my head again— miraculously this time my temperature was good. I was covid-free and allowed to stay for my appointment. I haven’t been back in a while but I bet that office still has the “clean” and “dirty” pens.
I went into a dentist office at one point, and the dental hygienist took my temp... she left and called the dentist to take a second look. I'm glad he said "He's fine, just do the job" after his assessment. Clown world...
They will all be eligible for a pay raise after stellar reviews of how procedures were followed and paperwork was filed. Outstanding. No one was injured or beaten senseless on their watch.
I laugh when I see thermometers now being used as a covid screening test. I had a fever for exactly 1-hour of my 2 day covid illness. I just took care of a 50-year old (non vaccinated) female. She was "achy", I gave her a covid test, she was positive. She was sick for 2 days and never had a fever. What a fucking joke our society has become. This is doing nothing but attempting to instill fear.
Sort of like how we take our shoes off at airports because they might be bombs, and have to give up our water bottles because they might be bombs, which then get thrown in a bin with all the other possible bombs because keeping a bin full of explosives right next to the security line is how you handle suspected bombs.
YES
Surely it should be the aim of terrorists now to blow up the security areas at airports? If they wanted to cause maximum mayhem that would shut down the airports rather than just a plane or two.
This would necessitate a pre security security area, which could be the next target.
Or perhaps there aren't any terrorists at all? Perhaps they were just created to be be able to push through the Patriot Act??
And then a pre pre security area security area.
That would be logical.
It’s evident that there aren’t a significant number of terrorists.
If there were many prepared to detonate a bomb vest, since we can’t stop them, they’d happen Daily all around the place.
Yet there are none.
I recall reading a number of years ago that the number of terrorists apprehended at airport security was zero. Ever. Not sure of the legitimacy of that but I can't say that I've heard of anything and I'm sure the media would be making a hoo-hah of it if someone had been picked up.
I've heard and observed the same thing. 20 years of TSA security theatre and not a single terrorist intercepted? Either they're terrible at their jobs or their jobs are pointless. Either way. And yet, they continue.
Because if they go to all the trouble of hypnotize-roofie them to be MK-ultra type suicide bombers, why risk them going through security - they just use them as school shooters instead today? Right? One moves the power needle further into their side of the meter, the other not so much. They caught a shoe bomber in 2022 does nothing to make Biden and Pelosi more powerful or richer.
I've been saying this for years. The fact that the security line hasn't been targeted once really makes you go HMMMM.
I remember when they started making us remove our shoes, I said to my wife, "What happens if a guy stashes a bomb in his underwear? Are we all going to have to take our underwear off too?" If so, we'd see a huge uptick in the commando option.
Then it actually happened.
"... terrorist... attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25, 2009."
Still waiting for that edict to be enforced. I picture it every time I'm in the TSA line, which seems to make it move a hair faster.
Now imagine a jihadess with implanted bomb boobs. Wouldn't that make for an interesting security protocol.
She'd probably get bomboozled, unless the implants had a picture of Gavin Newsom on them.
A few years ago, I had to give up a small bottle of maple butter to bring to my cousin's girlfriend in Europe who loves maple syrup. So I brought a bunch of maple based delicacies. Ii was above the 140g rule - I think something like 200g or so. Very small. Like pablum. When available, amirite?
Anyway.
I should have put it in my shaving bag in my luggage. Next time.
In the meantime, I threw it out.
At least we were protected from terrorists.
Perfectly phrased Sir!
Don't forget how very dangerous our breast milk is!
This could all be hilarious if it wasn’t so horrifying. I lived in the 3rd world for a few years and saw jungle justice up close so I’ve feared and loathed the detachment from reason because of what it portends, but this prolonged detour through clowntown is something else.
Are you ok? Sounds like you could be sliding towards hypothermia, caused by global climate change; which has apparently done a 180 and gone back towards the new ice age again. 🙄
Can’t the actors at least get their lines right in the Grand Guignol COVID Theatre Productions?
Mayo Clinic has reported that just over half their COVID patients had no fever. This temperature screening is in vain.
It would be in vain even if the people using the thermometers knew how to get an accurate reading from them, or had some idea what a normal body temperature range might be. But in this particular case, it was pretty much like they were calling out completely random numbers against Covid: 9! 62! 405,841! –0.037!
And then all the visitors could have written those numbers on pieces of paper, and then there wouldn't be any viruses in the building.
Hike!
Ridiculousness piled upon ridiculousness.
"Covid: 9! 62! 405,841! –0.037!......Rien ne va plus, Monsieur et Madame!!!!
They came with exclamation marks, so they must be pretty exciting news.
Especially when those thermometers take surface skin temperature, not core body temp. I've asked nurses if they know how those thermometers work and they all say yes. Only one laughed and admitted that they're useless.
Exactly...whole family (wife, toddler) had it recently, no temp except for our toddler. 99.5. One dose of Motrin and in 1 hour, normal not to return. We’ve , literally as a nation and scientific/medical community reverted back to dark ages medicine. I’m 52 and for the first time in my life thinking I may never go back to the doctor (not that I went much anyway).
its a dark age, not just in medicine. Science, reason, education, all have been institutionalized. One form is thought is allowed, all others are to be dismissed, or even criminalized.
Omg this was even more hilarious than the last post.
Aren''t bodies closer to 98 degress give or take? Were you all c-c-c-cold? I am suprised they still have to measure it manually, can't they just read it from the nano bits they injected (or if you took a nose swab test)? Or is that next week? /s
When I first read it I thought this was parody. Hard to comprehend this is actually still happening.
It's CA. They are quite creative when it comes to stupid.
Excuse me, we're THE BEST IN THE WORLD when it comes to stupid.
I lived in SoCal for 15 years. Nice area, nice weather, crazy politics. As John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". In case no has noticed CA is not known as a moral and religious state (like many others as well).
So....embarassing and humiliating for people completely aware of this dumb theatre.
Can you imagine the paperwork and chaos if they actually detected a fever? Omg.
Mercifully, there's no danger they ever will.
One hot day last summer I visited a chiropractor’s office. The receptionist scanned my forehead and her reading was high. She told me to wait a few minutes and we’d try again. In the meantime I asked if I could use their bathroom. Absolutely not, I could not enter the office with my high temperature! At that point I nearly cried because it was just so stupid. She scanned my head again— miraculously this time my temperature was good. I was covid-free and allowed to stay for my appointment. I haven’t been back in a while but I bet that office still has the “clean” and “dirty” pens.
It seems some people still play "Pandemic".
Game's (never) over!
I went into a dentist office at one point, and the dental hygienist took my temp... she left and called the dentist to take a second look. I'm glad he said "He's fine, just do the job" after his assessment. Clown world...
Honk, honk.
They will all be eligible for a pay raise after stellar reviews of how procedures were followed and paperwork was filed. Outstanding. No one was injured or beaten senseless on their watch.
So you're all reptiles?
I had to look up what a normal body temp is on your forehead. About point-five deg lower than 98.6... 🤡
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I laugh when I see thermometers now being used as a covid screening test. I had a fever for exactly 1-hour of my 2 day covid illness. I just took care of a 50-year old (non vaccinated) female. She was "achy", I gave her a covid test, she was positive. She was sick for 2 days and never had a fever. What a fucking joke our society has become. This is doing nothing but attempting to instill fear.