I almost missed my connecting flight to Singapore, thanks to the delay in the flight from Minneapolis to Tokyo. And then, there was the OTT flu screening at Narita. Before passengers are allowed to deplane, health authorities board each plane to screen passengers for signs for fever, etc. We had to fill out forms that make it possible for them to do contact-tracing as well. The entire process took friggin' 45 min, and meant I left the plane already past my scheduled flight time to SG. Thankfully, the latter flight waited for those of use stuck.
Imagine a bunch of workers all dressed up like that coming up the plane. As if we were in some Resident Evil movie or something... The guy is using some thermal scanning device to catch for signs of fever in passengers. Apparently, if so many as one person registers a high temperature, the entire plane is forced to stay behind.
All of us were given these yellow forms that cleared us to go through customs. We were told to wave our forms in the air, because there was apparently some discrepancy between the number of forms handed out and the number of people of the plane. That took a while to resolve. Thankfully, no one on the plane had fever, and we were cleared to leave after this. Pardon the blurred screen -twas my phone screen. But, I think the blurriness adds a certain imagined sense of paranoia, no?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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