>>10331865 (pb)

I have to agree with you. It seems a flaw or else just the way we were made (not to control other people). Most of us can handle relationships with only a relative handful of people. Our minds go funny when thinking of millions. Its an abstraction to most, I think.

I used to be one of those saying "bomb those so-and-so's back into the stone ages!" (This was a long time ago.) However, if you really try to think of hundreds, thousands, millions of children, babies, normal people just trying to live the same as you, it becomes heartless to think of them perishing in a cataclysm. Some events are reserved for God to dispense, I think.

What a horrible state for humans to be in, to believe that such destruction of others is necessary or desirable for their own survival.

Not that many people voice this, it just seems that in our fascination with what is going on with the dam we forget the full implications.

I take your point. It is reassuring to think the infrared thermometers don't truly pose a health risk.

However, there are a few things about the "temperature checking" that raise huge red flags. 1. The action mimics the aiming of a gun and pulling a trigger 2. The person having their temperature checked is supposed to blindly accept the process. What if the device "made in China", perhaps, is flawed and is not reading correctly? What if other technology is embedded? 3. According to a post I have not verified the temperature check is best done at a wrist or elbow. If this is true, why is the forehead INVARIABLY used?