Temperature checks are mostly theater to be honest. Why?

📌We know 1/3rd to half of people who have COVID-19 don’t develop fever.

đź“Ś Even those people who will eventually exhibit symptoms of #COVID19 are often contagious before temperature spikes. https://www.popsci.com/story/health/temperature-check-fever-covid-pandemic/
COVID-19 temperature checks might do more harm than good

Checking for fevers in public places probably won't keep COVID from spreading—and may actually help the pandemic keep growing.

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/temperature-check-fever-covid-pandemic/
2) It doesn’t hurt to take a temperature but I know from observations and others that suggests they give a false sense of security— which then leads to more risky behavior like less mask wearing. Most people simply don’t understand asymptomatic transmission. Temp checks confuses.
3) And there is the fact that normal body temperature has a range. What is fever for some is not for others. https://twitter.com/cinemaven/status/1285707650651623426?s=21 https://twitter.com/cinemaven/status/1285707650651623426
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