RE:RE:It's an interesting concept.....colts123 wrote: As you stated " could be completely wrong but it seems like from a speed POV the theralpass would win but is the speed really needed?" Yes you are completely wrong. speed and "time is money "is very inportant imagine being at a sporting event and an announcement stating the game is delayed by slow manual testing or school classes are delayed by slow and usually inaccurate manual testing etc. Technology is always more faster and efficient than manual processing. maybe we should go back to type writers and adding machines or better still lets go back to the horse and buggy
colts123, thanks for your reply.
To clarify; at the airport they were actually taking temperatures 2 times: once before going through security screening and again at the gate. In both cases ther was no impact on speed. At security screening it took a few seconds to get temperature taken only to join the line and wait 10 minutes to get through the security procedure. At the gate - same thing - a few seconds for temperature to be taken and then wait in another line for the gate procedure. Having the the temperature taken manually had exactly zero impact on speed.
In the case of a stadium I would expect the same thing - there is already a chokepoint at the gate to have tickets verified and temperatures could be taken on the people in that line faster than they could clear the gate. As far as schools go - teachers will be tasked with temping the kids as they enter the school or classroom. This is basically free and if class starts a few minutes late - who cares. If you think budget-restrained school boards will spend many thousands of dollars simply to ensure that classes aren't delayed a few minutes you're out-of-touch. What they'll do is put out a memo saying "come to school ten minutes early to be screened" - done.
The only place I can see some use would be on places where there is no exisiting chokepoint, maybe office buildings, shopping malls, etc but even here I think there will be limited uptake. Do malls care about this? No, they do not. Office buildings? Nope, they'll leave the process to each tenant for their space.
You've been out recently I'm sure - do you see any place where mass temperature screening could be used? Individual businesses that I've visited have a sign on the door, "don't come in if you're sick or have a temperature and wear a mask". That's it. Liability covered and federal regulations met.
Your horse and buggy analogy or typewriter comparison is disengenuious. This is not an accurate comparison. Technology is great, I agree, but in this case it does not actually improve the process.
Thermalpass appears to be a great product - unfortunately it's solving a problem that doesn't need solving at great cost.