If that is the case then how can NY screen to get such a high positive test rate? You'd think people requiring hospitalization would pass any testing threshold.
Because Covid-19 isn't as prevalent at the South Florida hospital. Hopefully, it won't be as big a problem there.
The criminal-like treatment really p**sed my wife off one time a few months ago. First she was going to put her cell phone in the tray. They told her to keep it in her pocket. Of course, it set off the alarm (as she had nothing else metal on her). With their "high security tone" they instructed her where to stand and did the full wanding procedure and then blamed her for the cell phone setting it off. She is normally nice to people but answered in full on "b" mode. I'm surprised she controlled herself enough that she didn't end up in a serious argument with them.
Lots of eyes and attention is New York. By next week, it looks like Louisiana and huge crowds the last week of Feb in LA during Mardi Gras where the millions enjoyed themselves in their drunken and altered state of mind in the streets day and night didn't help.
You should have requested to speak with a security manager right then and there. One would have met with you if you requested. Immediate guest feedback is a good thing.
Pre-screening in NY has been really good. I know a few cases that were not tested and the people just did a tele-health check and waited out at home until they got better.
OK...this is the covid-19 unrelated anecdote I wanted to tell before heading off to work. Well, logging into work. In my line of work, I occasionally have to give presentations (oral or poster). I actually prefer oral (wait that sounds terrible...I prefer giving a talk) to the poster because its less prep work. Anyway, there are two things that need stating here. 1) I was on the Carlos the Jackal list for a while. Don't know why. I wrote a letter to DHS, my name was taken off and they told me that I would never know. This was during the Dubya administration. The story I'm about to relay is one of two events that caused me actually write a letter and do something. The other was that coming home from a trip to WDW, my family was able to do bag check at whatever resort we were at and I had to haul my stuff to the airport and go through super security. 2) This particular conference was in Rome and I was doing both types of presentation. I had my poster made (3-5 feet high, 5-7 feet wide, rolled up in a poster tube...I've been to a couple of conferences where posters are portrait. Terrible idea. Imagine if some text like the conclusions are at your knees or thighs, but I digress), but was unprepared for my talk so I traveled with a laptop (weight = 86 pounds) and a bunch of papers (weight = I should've looked like Schwarzenegger by the time this was over). In essence, I was overpacked. I do get rid of stuff on a pleasure or work trip. For example, maybe I sleep in an old undershirt. I might discard it before coming home. Same for books I finish, etc. I should note, I don't always discard. Somethings are gifts. Like the books. Not the old undershirt. However, on this trip my whitey tighties were new and I couldn't bare to part with them. So, after wearing, I just shoved them in the poster tube for the flight back. The night before the flight back I ate something that made me "tummy rumbly" to use the official medical term. When I got to the airport in Rome I was detained, pulled aside, and questioned by 4 dudes with uzis slung over their shoulders. They were accompanied by 4 doberman pinschers. The whole time they were questioning me I had to go to the bathroom. I mean, really go. The first 3 times I asked, my request was denied. The fourth time, I said, "Please shoot me or let me go to the bathroom." They let me go. Anyway, when I came out, they were holding up my poster tube and the one guy who spoke English well was asking me what this could possibly be for. I told him. He didn't believe me. So, in one of the most surreal moments of my life I watched as he reached into the tube, pulled out each individual pair of underwear, and held them up so the overhead fluorescent light shone through. I don't think in reality it took this long, but it seemed like each pair of underwear was examined for 20 seconds. Finally, they set me free. They seemed sympathetic by the end of the process because I was really sick and mostly harmless.
Universal does use X-ray machines at Citywalk entrances. And you still have bag check and metal detector to walk through at resort entrances. At some point every guest goes through a metal detector. Not even sunglasses stay on head.
With 3? 4? Super busy international airports wouldn’t surprise me if NY was “super seeded”.
Anecdotally- there is still a nasty none-CV19 bug going around. Of roughly 300 LTC residents in my nursing homes I go to I can name 10 right off top of my head that were tested for CV19 and all negative. Same symptoms including leading to pneumonia- but thankfully this pneumonia responding to antibiotics. The nursing homes in my area have had restricted visitor status for around 2 weeks now and somehow still getting this bug.
My Universal lanyard sets off metal sector to Hulk and RRR every time. I have a couple UOAP buttons on it - they are tiny but it’s enough. I have to hand it to a TM before I walk through. Wonder if your machine was set to super high detect mode?
.My department has been off all week due to the schedule changes, we go back tomorrow. Have a feeling there will almost be a mutiny when my coworkers find out. (I'm the only one with authorized access to email at home)