GOOD RIDDANCE TO THIS POINTLESS COVID THEATRE

ONE of the highlights of my week was walking in to my local hospital to see that it has axed my most-loathed anti-Covid measure: temperature checks.

They are what I call ‘Covid theatre’: measures that appear protective, but are actually pointless.

We’ve known since the very beginning that the machines, which monitor skin temperature, tell us basically nothing about someone’s Covid status. Yet businesses across the country continue to install them, falsely believing that putting in a temperature monitor makes their premises ‘Covid-secure’.

Last week, the UK’s medicines regulatory body, the MHRA, issued yet another warning that temperature-checkers cannot be used to detect a person with the virus. Many on the market, it said, aren’t even capable of taking an accurate reading.

Business owners: stop wasting your money on farcical temperature tests and instead install proper ventilation systems, which blow away stagnant viral particles in the air.