Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

If cold germs (that’s a virus right?) can survive living on the moon for a while with extreme cold ,extreme heat ,no water & also being exposed to cosmic rays ,I’m sure they can survive a trip across the sea in a cardboard box!

it is possible for some viruses to survive a few weeks in cold conditions, but for the vast majority its hours to days even in ideal conditions (thankfully)

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.

But hey, that’s why we have UV lights, too.

Just like preschools. I always say kids are little walking disease-vectors anyway…

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.

hm maybe best not to buy anything from china for a while until this clears up…

I’ll stick with ordering copper lights since the are anti-microbial naturally. :slight_smile:

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. :smiling_imp:

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 :)

Maybe our parcels will pass through customs quicker as nobody will want to touch them :slight_smile:

I also assumed that the reference was to the postal department when it said “China Post”—both capitalized.

This should probably be the “coronavirus confirmed in China thread” (instead of post) , no? :stuck_out_tongue:

But hey, it’s an invitation to a competition in recreational typing

Are you guys sure the OP states China Post? Maybe it’s not there… but the virus makes you think it’s there… because YOU’RE INFECTED.

Good talk about the situation seen from insine China:

Thank you CheapThrills. That’s an excellent video about the health situation in China.

In the first video, at about 9:50, one the guy on the right says:

“The washing of hands with soap … is a rarity in China …. there is no soap in hospitals …”

EEEWWWW.

That first video includes a pointer and link to:
Laowhy86’s initial video covering the virus: China's Coronavirus is Much Worse Than You Think - YouTube