How many of the temperature check screen things have you encountered?

[Chickpeasorchips]

It's a screen where it scans you and then shows your temperature. I've gone through one in a cafe and one in a restaurant. Just wondering how common they are as it seems easy enough and a pretty good idea, assuming they work.

My hairdresser had one but they were renting it and said it was expensive so they gave it back after a trial, so now they just have one they point at your wrist.

I think my office has one too but I've only been there once since this all started.

My office has one, I would image they are expensive.

The only place I have seen one is in my GP waiting room.

In a covid world? Nowhere.
In a normal world - Hong Kong airport arrivals hall.

Nowhere.
The only time I have had my temperature taken has been hospital and dentists.

Once in a small shopping arcade in Cowes on the Isle of Wight!

They must be quite expensive. But maybe in the long term a good investment, especially for offices and airports. I wonder if we will see more

Only at the GPs on a screen.

Only places I've had the handheld scanner one in your ear or forehead was the walk in centre and the hospital. At one of the walk-in centre's I overhead the staff saying they didn't even work properly. At the hospital one of the times the man on the desk wasn't bothering to change the plastic head on the ear thermometer. I got a bacterial ear infection from that one. I wish they were using the wall mounted ones like the GP!

Once in a small shopping arcade in Cowes on the Isle of Wight!

That's interesting - not where you'd necessarily expect!

There's one at our local swimming pool and I've encountered another at our local branch of the Ivy. Bit faffy if I recall. The one at the local swimming pool once pinged at me because I'd been wearing a hat and it gave me a falsely high reading. Thankfully I was given another minute and on re-check it was fine. DD's gymnastics class used to ping them all in by taking their temperature. Notice they've stopped that now though.

Absolutely pointless and lulls people into a false sense of security. Temperature is not a guaranteed symptom.

We have one at the staff entrance at work. Cheaper than having someone scanning everyone as they come in (thousands of people on site though). A few businesses (restaurants, hairdressers etc) round town have the hand held scanner which they point at your forehead which is presumably cheaper and works well with fewer people to scan.

Gyms use them

Zero but then I don’t go to the gym and have a mobile hairdresser

We have a hand held one at work, I am apparently hypothermic every day so I'm not sure how accurate it is.

There's a restaurant in my city that has one. It has a loud robot voice that barks 'SCANNING FAILED' about a dozen times until you ignore it.

If it registers a high temperature I always feel that it'll go full-on ED-209 and machine gun me all over the soft furnishings.

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We had them in our offices in London and New York throughout 2020. They turned out pretty useless:

• 465,000 temperature checks done;
• 5 people referred to Covid tests (we have also got private PCR testing capabilities on-site). None of them had Covid.

At the same time we had a few dozens of Covid cases (people coming to the office with atypical mild symptoms) who were not picked up by the temperature checks.

We ended up removing the scanners in January 2021.

The best "Covid secure" investment we made was ventilation. We had no cases of Covid transmissions in the open area with improved ventilation.

But maybe in the long term a good investment, especially for offices and airports.

Good investment for what though? I can't see what their use is. Not only are some people unusually hot or cold naturally (thinking of my dad who was scanned at the weekend and it wouldn't work as he's always so cold to the touch), but what if you've just run for the bus, or sat in the sun for too long?

Beyond that, temperature isn't even a particularly good way to determine whether someone is healthy, and especially not if they are infectious vectors of a disease spread by respiration.

It just seems like a monumental waste of time and money for no use at all.

We have one at work too. Never seen one in my gym though at either setting (they have 4 or 5 different sites in the local area and I
frequent a couple of these)

That's interesting wintertravel1980
So ventilation is where the money should be spent

Where I live, not in the Uk, they are in every single building or shop a person enters.

It’s certainly theatre, or at best, it’s best intentions without effectiveness checks.

We have one of those hand held thermometer things at work. (It never gets sanitised, I bet!)

Some folk apparently have taken to recording their time of arrival on the log sheet. I’m not sure if they are playing, or if they really misunderstand.

Either way, it’s probably just as useful…

Years ago in a Turkish airport I think, but more recently only in an upmarket restaurant chain. If other people are doing temperatures they seem to be sticking with the guns but even then I haven't seen that many of those.

I haven't seen screens anywhere. The hospital (private) had someone checking your temperature with a handheld scanner on the way in but I haven't had it checked anywhere else, including the GP surgery and NHS hospital. The gym doesn't have one, nor does the office and I haven't been in any shops or restaurants with them (although I've hardly been in any shops or restaurants!).