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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by oski on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:57AM (#22760385)
My point isn’t that taking temperature checks needs to be perfect, but that they are focusing their intervention on symptomatic spreading rather than asymptomatic spreading.

They would benefit more with immediate action by giving employees nonmedical fabric masks and making them mandatory TODAY rather than waiting for surgical masks next week.

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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by dmoy on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:10PM (#22760537)
GP is agreeing with you. The phrase "perfect is the enemy of good" is a criticism of striving for perfection when you could be doing other good stuff in the meanwhile.

That is, perfect (waiting for super accurate tests, etc) is the enemy of good (testing temperatures, wearing basic masks now).

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Re:Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgica... by oski on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:23PM (#22760673)
Ok, thanks for clarifying.
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