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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by Aperocky on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:03PM (#22644005)
> Maybe the no-contact thermometers could be a scalable approach. Go to the bank? Forehead scan to get in. Go to the grocery store? Same.

This is the reality in China. Literally every single public place have a remote thermometer they scan on your forehead. supermarket? scanned. subway? scanned. restaurant? scanned. If you have a fever you'll go into quarantine in no time.

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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by megous on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:42PM (#22644208)
People can take ibuprofen prior to going shopping.
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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:46AM (#22644534)
People can do a lot of things. It's not a big deal that measures won't be perfectly effective - in the presence of any suppression measures, once the case count stabilizes, there's a lot of room between "literally impossible to spread the virus" and exponential growth.
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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by megous on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:31AM (#22645843)
That's nice, but one such person can shut down the entire production line in some factory, or the hospital department. (happened already in my country) Such people have disproportionate effect on the economy.
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