So they started taking temperature and asking if you have signs of the flu...

[OrioN]

Starting last month, the guards were screening for covid... in May instead of January when this pandemic was spreading...

I asked them if someone in this building was positive and why are they starting now instead of December 2019 ???

Found out here:

Coronavirus kills several FedEx workers at Newark facility | The Latest FedEx Headlines

Coronavirus kills several FedEx workers at Newark facility - Fox Several FedEx Corp. workers at the company's Newark, N.J., air hub have died due to complications of the coronavirus, a sign of the toll that the outbreak has taken on front-line delivery workers. The outbreak among FedEx workers...

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So it's a reactive action, not proactive.

I had signs of the flu in February, but not to the point of being in bed and hardly breathing.

Did cover my face during January to today if I can't maintain my social distance.

Others probably has the virus, but are asymptomatic

Shrugs, I should get a free testing but, eh...

 

[OrioN]

Bump, so no one else is having to do this at either FXE or FXG terminals?

Only used that FXE ramp as an example and I'm sure other FXE ramps were affected...

I'm watching the pm news that there's an uptick in cases in about 15 states where they allow more businesses to open.

It's the common folk that aren't adhering to mask/social distance/ hand washing that are spreading that virus again.

 

[bacha29]

Security guards doing temperature testing? I'm sure they all have an extensive medical background. My god! What a second rate bottom feeding operation that company has become.

 

[59 Dano]

Security guards doing temperature testing? I'm sure they all have an extensive medical background. My god! What a second rate bottom feeding operation that company has become.

Doesn't take much of a medical background to operate a thermometer.

 

[OrioN]

Don't condemn that. I'm sure UPS and Amazon are doing similar things to convey a false sense of security for their essential workforce.

Arizona, as one of the states that were gradually opening up businesses, were seeing a rise in cases this late in the season.

With their relative high temperature, it's not just a common flu that comes during the winter months

PS, I was held at the guard shack one day last week since I was a bit overheated from running gunning on a hot/humid day... they made me wait in an air conditioned room for me to cool down and finally cleared me to drive inside the building to unload my pickups/outbound freight

 

[It will be fine]

Doesn't take much of a medical background to operate a thermometer.

They actually have outside people at the terminals I’ve been to, not the security guards. It’s mostly theater though most people inside aren’t wearing masks now that it’s hot.

 

[AB831]

Doesn't take much of a medical background to operate a thermometer.

Lmao

 

[OrioN]

Why the laff? Point n shoot, red flag when it reads over 100°friend

Shrugs

 

[bacha29]

Doesn't take much of a medical background to operate a thermometer.

Ok. So when you need your next hemorrhoid surgery (people sitting at a desk all day are known to have that problem) Fat Freddy can send in the guy who fills up the pop machine with his pocket knife and a bottle of turpentine . If guards doing temp checks is good enough in your opinion then this form of low cost out patient surgery is good enough as well.

 

[MassWineGuy]

None of it happening at my station. If they’re too cheap to rent vehicles to meet service, I doubt they would set up fever checkpoints.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Ok. So when you need your next hemorrhoid surgery (people sitting at a desk all day are known to have that problem) Fat Freddy can send in the guy who fills up the pop machine with his pocket knife and a bottle of turpentine . If guards doing temp checks is good enough in your opinion then this form of low cost out patient surgery is good enough as well.

@bacha29's absurdity reaches a new pinnacle.

 

[AB831]

@bacha29's absurdity reaches a new pinnacle.

I actually am starting to feel sympathy for him.

 

[Indecisi0n]

Doesn't take much of a medical background to operate a thermometer.

Where are they taking the temps from ?

 

[AB831]

Where are they taking the temps from ?

Rectal

 

[Indecisi0n]

Rectal

What hub ?

Asking for a friend

 

[59 Dano]

Where are they taking the temps from ?

Been getting them from Costco. Bulk discounts.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

It's the common folk that aren't adhering to mask/social distance/ hand washing that are spreading that virus again.

Wrong. Contact tracing hasn't yielded any evidence that the virus is spreading through casual contact. It is being spread by people spending hours cooped up in enclosed spaces without proper ventilation, masks or no masks. Masks do not have an effect on the amount of infectious particles in the air in enclosed spaces.

 

[Star B]

None of it happening at my station. If they’re too cheap to rent vehicles to meet service, I doubt they would set up fever checkpoints.

I saw a customer with an automated fever checkpoint. I didn't have time to play with it but it was an iPad with a printer and an infared thermometer on an arm.

 

[It will be fine]

I saw a customer with an automated fever checkpoint. I didn't have time to play with it but it was an iPad with a printer and an infared thermometer on an arm.

We just got something like that. As you walk through the metal detector the camera tracks you and displays your temp on a laptop. This morning mine was 97. Lol.

 

[bacha29]

I actually am starting to feel sympathy for him.

Security guards conducting medical test to determine the suitability of a person to work that day? What's the next cheap gimmick? Truck washers doing drug tests?