Mmmmmmmm, not quite. Hantavirus is common in the western US, and can survive for years if not decades in mouse droppings. Go cleaning out a barn or something, inhale mousecrap-dust, and you can pick it up.
I’m not about to don surgical gear every time I use a new flashlight, but I think I’d give any package a once-over to see if anything… “organic”… might be on it.
My grand daughter started preschool last fall. My wife and I are pretty healthy usually but we both had colds we could not kick for months on end. Going to the store is a crap shoot these days. If I’m near someone hacking up a lung, I turn and go the other way. Wash my hands as soon as I get home. This new virus going around is a little scary, especially for the very young and very old.
Mmmm ..
. aren't you a bit too fast to see other people doing bad things ?
My take on this tittle is just someone trying to do a "coronavirus confirmed in China" post for gathering informations and not adding the quotation marks
After seeing the OP I immediately did some Googling, but should probably have included the results in my last post.
Basically, it seems the idea of Coronavirus surviving more than 2 days in a shipment highly improbable, and each hour that passes makes it less probable.
And Coronavirus has never been “confirmed” in any shipment.
@ Kame, “China Post” is China’s mail service, like the US’s USPS.
I am not alarmed, but if the virus comes from a manipulation for military purposes, it may have features introduced to make it more resistant. Surely we are getting more alarmed than we should be, but everything that comes from China I steam at 100°C (212°F); on the pretext that it’s winter, I’ll get it from the mailman with gloves on.
I know what china post is ;) and still think you misanderstood the tittle as it would make no sense to have it "confirmed in china post" as you explain it yourself but i'll stop here :)