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You are probably more at risk due to spending extra time with TSA people than from the machine.
by jl6 2y ago
You are probably more at risk due to spending extra time with TSA people than from the machine.
- latchkey 2y agoRisk of what? Again, the point here is that I'm being thoughtful about the measure of risk I'm taking in a particular situation as an example. In the same way that people choose to move to the middle of nowhere to avoid "signals."
- jl6 2y agoIf your hypothesis is that TSA agents are incompetent or careless or otherwise malign, then every extra moment you spend in their presence puts you at risk of the kind of things that such people might do. TSA agents have been known to assault people. Rare, but more common than injury caused by scanners.
- latchkey 2y agoMy "irrational" fear is the scanner, not the TSA agent.
- nerdponx 2y agoIt's only irrational if you don't fear all sources of radio wave emission by the same amount.
- nerdponx 2y agoOr just get sick from close contact with another human being. Influenza and Covid-19 can be serious! Probably much greater risk there than from somehow accidentally getting boiled alive by radio waves from a scanner.
- EasyMark 2y agoWalking through the airport around so many people, some of which are violent, than any problems with the scanners. That said I skip the high Rez face scans because those are just fkn creepy that they want that much information about my pores.