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As someone who has always been 96.5/35.8 - I will say that having a higher body temperature being the standard works out well when you come running in flushed to your check-in gate at the airport, and they take your body temperature (Covid thing) - and you still come in well under the acceptable range.

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During the pandemic, some shopping centers in my area started to measure wrist temperatures. Once, my wrist was still cold from winter temperatures outside:

"28.5, ok, next"

> During the pandemic, some shopping centers in my area started to measure wrist temperatures.

They were supposed to measure your forehead temperature with that infrared thermometer. But due to some insane rumor spread around the net about these thermometers somehow hurting the pineal gland or something like that, everyone starting measuring on the wrist, even though it's way less accurate.

It was always completely pointless pandemic theater regardless of the measurement technique.

I thought use your palm is sort of ok.

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