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oski ◴[] No.22760141[source]
This response from Amazon is better than nothing, but given that recent figures show that up to 25% of people may be asymptomatic, might these temperature checks give people a false sense of security? They should have any employee with _any_ symptoms stay home and self-quarantine for longer than 3 days.

They should really focus on getting face masks for employees faster by using nonmedical fabric masks, which can help prevent asymptomatic transmission by blocking respiratory droplets from spreading. The article says the surgical masks won't arrive until next week. And they should really be using some alternative fabric mask, rather than surgical masks which should go to healthcare workers.

Each day that interventions are delayed makes a huge difference.

More thoughts at https://shouldiwearafacemask.com

(Edited to remove suggestion to close until they get masks with a compromise to use nonmedical fabric masks.)

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yitianjian ◴[] No.22761365[source]
Quite a few public health professionals have stated that asymptomatic individuals, while infectious, are a very low risk vector. They don't cough or sneeze and the primary transmission rate is through droplets. I can try finding a few sources.
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1. JoeAltmaier ◴[] No.22761447[source]
Yet empirically there are symptomatic individuals showing up all the time, with no evident vector. So asymptomatic folk are assumed to be contagious, and not just a little.