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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by macspoofing on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:45AM (#22760265)
>How is this just starting?

I wonder if this is because of shortages of masks.

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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by btilly on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:57AM (#22760383)
Thermal guns are not affected by shortages of masks.

That said, we probably don't have sufficient supplies of those on hand either.

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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by macspoofing on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:24PM (#22760683)
>Thermal guns are not affected by shortages of masks.

Well ... they are certainly correlated.

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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by dillonmckay on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:40PM (#22760843)
There is no shortage of masks, just issues of procurement.

Masks are being sold to overseas buyers, so I assume they can resell them back to US entities at enormous markups.

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