Have a Nice Day

Security checkpoints around the country recently brought online full body scans and/or pat downs as a requirement of boarding a plane. In the first week, a colostomy bag ruptured during a vigorous patdown even after the older gentleman tried to explain to the technician that it was there. A woman was asked to bare an artificial breast because the scan could not penetrate it. Little children were asked to partially disrobe in front of everyone.

Seriously. So all the private parts lectures and stranger danger alerts go out the window when strangers feel up your four year old in a standing-room-only airport line? My kids used to even object to a doctor touching them too much, and he had 12 years of training.

How come at the dentist's office when we get a molar x-rayed, the technician still covers us with a heavy lead protector and dashes behind a protective barrier?  Where is the AMA? Can the airport demand full body scans on a person four times in four weeks during holiday travel, and will they take financial responsibility for the health related issues that will come from it?

E-gads: this could completely eliminate the need for online dating if you can get groped by strangers without even having to talk a while and meet over coffee first.

As with all ridiculous, over-the-top ideas, there is an upside:  Whole body scans are really expensive and usually not covered by insurance, but now they're free at airports. So why not combine the industries so they diagnose suspicious health issues at the same time? A print-out on your health status would be ready when you picked up your shoes. Sort of a good news/bad news thing: ... the good news is you're cleared to board your flight...

Have a Nice Day.