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Would you be willing to undergo an airport "full body scan"?
Will they let me know if I have brittle bones?
You know, I'm thinking if we're going to have some government guy making decisions about our healthcare, let's station him at airport check-in so he can do our body scan and while he's checking for terrorist stuff, take a look at our bones and prescribe Boniva/Fosamax or suggest Vitamin D3 (if you're too old and therefore too cost-ineffective for Obamacare real treatment).
"You, outta the line."
"But, I'm no terrorist."
"I know...looks like the onset of scoliosis. Get it checked out. "Want a mammogram while we're doing your carry-on items?"
I'm against it, and believe they have to start profile checkings and start checking the way EL AL does their screenings which is way better. The one time I flew with them I felt very safe...so many checks and well done I believed nothing could go wrong due to the screening...
The very thing I have wondered for years is why we can't learn anything from the Israelis. El Al should be more apt to have an Islamist attack than anyone else and yet it just doesn't happen to them. They know more about how to deal with Islamists than anyone else and they are a democratic country.
The thought of it skeeves me out (you can take the girl out of Catholicism but not the Catholicism out of the girl ) however I would fly easier if I knew everyone on that plane has been checked out thoroughly and cannot possibly be hiding a bomb.
Now if they would just hire professional screeners and baggage workers that took their jobs seriously (and were paid accordingly) I would be fully confident that the skies were safe to fly.
No, I wouldn't. Get on a pre screened list, flash your picture ID and you should be good to go. Anybody else, yes they should be willing to undergo some additional scrutiny. But focus on those most likely to be potential risks, I.E. be smart about screening.
Doing a body X ray of a granny in her wheelchair or a 5 year old girl is a waste of time and money.
Sure, I've got nothing to hide. I've even been pulled aside for "secondary screening" once in Newark. Of course the guy behind me was wearing a turbine, and I don't think they wanted to appear to be profiling him.
They pulled both of us aside. It was more annoying then anything. Taking my belt off, all of my outer clothing off, taking my laces out of my shoes so they could be sniffed. Then the pat down. It was worse then being frisked before going to jail. I didn't care though, as I said, I had nothing to hide. That and I had plenty of time before my flight.
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I would do it, because flying is faster than driving or taking a boat, but I sure would feel sorry for the TSA personel who has to look at it!
My understanding of the body scanners is that they don't really give a clear picture of what the person looks like naked, though they do have the ability. My main concern would be misuse by employees and certain scans leaking to the internet. Of course, I am not concerned with my scans being leaked, cause no one wants to see that.
The employees do not know who they are looking at. Unlike the baggage screeners who are right there, the people that look at the scans are in an isolated room and not able to see the passenger being scanned nor do they know who it is.
I don't understand why some people have a problem with this. Privacy? Your body is so unique that the screeners will stop and gawk at you, and only you? You're overweight? Hello, the majority of Americans are overweight! Nobody cares about your fat pudge, people, or the metal plate in your head, or your rebuilt knee, or your implants, etc.
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) however I would fly easier if I knew everyone on that plane has been checked out thoroughly and cannot possibly be hiding a bomb.
