Your Temperature or Your Life
Whose idea was it to make temperature scanners look like guns?
We’ve lived through this pandemic for the past seven months here in the U.S.
For most of the country, restaurants, gyms, medical offices, barbers all closed down for months. And once things opened up, in many cases, the first thing you saw while walking into the dentist’s office or the hair stylist’s shop was a white gun pointed at your forehead to check your temperature.
Whose idea was that, to make the temperature scanners look like guns? It’s off-putting, to say the least, bordering on threatening.
Obviously, temperature scanners have been around for many years, used at doctors’ offices, etc., to quickly and easily check a patient’s temperature. Now they seem ubiquitous.
Memories of Mom
I remember my mom checking my temperature when I was little. She’d gently touch my forehead with her hand, then get the thermometer out of the medicine cabinet.
She’d ask me to open my mouth wide, opening her own mouth to demonstrate, and place the small glass wand under my…
