Originally Posted by
esscee
Notice Singapore have installed temperature sensing equipment at entry points, so they can check each arrival's body temp.
Yes, and in other public spaces - though they are aware that fever is sometimes a short-term and sometimes a non-existent symptom of Covid-19, so it's just another layer of protection.
(See
https://www.todayonline.com/singapor...ations-experts )
Singapore - along with South Korea and Taiwan and maybe Hong Kong - are among the early success stories in this disaster, and we should all be paying close attention to them.
[Sky journalist] checked many times by people in full Hazmat gear! Now if China is doing that to prevent people bringing the virus back in to their country, then they must know much more about it than what they have released to the rest of the world.
I disagree. The infection rate and mortality rate estimates released to the world as far back as late January were plenty bad enough to warrant serious concern everywhere. But a lot of people chose not to trust those numbers and to minimise the risk they represented - this in spite of years of warnings from those most knowledgeable about the world's vulnerability to a new pandemic.
There were plenty of correct arguments about "it's way too soon to take these numbers as firm" and an equal number of specious arguments about how much better health systems or population health might be elsewhere, or how the virus (somehow) wouldn't get to the rest of us, so we needn't worry.
That worked out well.