a blog by Peter Leonard
Given the threat of Swine Flu, we were expecting some kind of medical encounter when we landed in Shanghai. This turned out to take the form of enviro-suited technicians taking each of our temperatures via a medium-range thermal detection device. If your forehead was too ‘hot’, you got your temperature taken with a digital mouth thermometer. Since we knew that a flu-sufferer within 3 seat rows could potentially mean quarantine, we were all happy that nobody on the flight triggered any kind of alarm.