Coronavirus (COVID-19)

temperature checks for people in contact with Trump
Everyone who comes into contact with President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence will have their temperature checked, the White House spokesperson Judd Deere says.

“Out of an abundance of caution, temperature checks are now being performed on any individuals who are in close contact with the President and Vice President,” he said.

I assume that is after they have been in contact, not before ? 

I think these rates are now meaningless - testing policy is so varied by country/district & loads more have it than have tested positive, the virus is everywhere.  What matters is hospital admissions/ITU admissions/deaths. What really matters even above that is avoidable deaths and premature years lost - many of those elderly/already sick who died were going to die soon anyway, often very soon - i.e. if it wasn't Corona virus, it would have been the next thing to come along. 
Note that in the over 85s, you would expect around 17% to die in any given year, and in the over 75s 7% www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html.
Compare that to Corona virus mortality by age group: 14.8% in the over 80s and 8% in the 70-79s. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
As always we aren't good at acknowledging or talking rationally about death and illness. Of course it's emotional, it's our loved ones (and/or relatives!), it's our own fears of mortality, etc.
I'll probably get called psychopathic again, but I'm pointing out the reality,
And I can't help but wonder if all the measures taken will end up doing more harm than good in the long term. 
Quarantine isn't harmless. After a median duration of quarantine of 10 days for SARS, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression were observed in 28.9% and 31.2% of respondents, respectively. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323345/
And that's before one factors in the myriad of health and social costs that will occur as a result of the severe recession that the attempted counter measures will inevitably cause and/or exacerbate.
Even if dramatic draconian measures could stop it now, the 1918 flu pandemic tells us it will be back again with a vengeance in the Autumn...
In fact, if I am likely to get it at some point (I think it's likely most of us will), I would like to have it now rather than later so that, if I am one of the unfortunate few that get the bad reaction, there is a functioning ITU for me.
I will absolutely follow government advice to try and slow down the spread, I trust that the CSO and CMO are good people trying their best to make difficult judgements, and I will try and protect my elderly or sick loved ones. 
But I fear we are gradually losing the plot and a sense of perspective, to all of our detriment. 

Pillows are not merciful...interestingly lots of medics will help,but you have to get right ones. My Mother in Law vanished in seconds when we asked the right man not to let her suffer.(She is the only person I have ever known to have an ideal end. I'm appalled at the process people with strong hearts have to suffer. Do NOT go to hospital. 

Does anyone care ?

...and the divorce courts 

Most with no real expertise in microbial epidemiology, plenty of students on the list. There is a real danger that the media, political pressure, and non expert "academics" will force the UK to diverge from the only real scientifically founded response in the world. The media is giving disproportionate attention to anyone or anything willing to give a divergent view to the governments scientifically founded action plan. A little more support for the plan would be better use of air time than constantly undermining efforts using any crackpot they can dig up to contradict it and confuse the population.
Most real experts I know didn't sign, I certainly didn't sign it.
Anyway rant over, I shouldn't have looked in, just happened to be watching the news channel at the same time as I was looking in here. I will get back to other more productive things.