Because of contamination? How long does a virus survive on a container? How long does it take for a ship to go from China to Australia? This panic makes people more sick than a virus could ever do.
I don't know about containers, but the virus can survive 72 hours on smooth surfaces like metal. I assume that's indoors (yet some States are closing parks and playgrounds).
Yes, smooth surface and room temperature and no UV light. Longer if the virus is covered by biological material or if it's cold. One study found no differences between SARS-CoV-1 and 2, so you can use the numbers already found for SARS 1. The good news is that the virus gets easily deactivated by disinfectants, other viruses are much more resistant.
Not that we'd expect to see much reporting, but while there is plenty of news stories of Chinese persons smuggling vials of things out of the US to take to China, so far I've only found this case of smuggling something into the US. https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-stopped-chinese-biologist-194214726.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese scientist carrying vials believed to contain the MERS and SARS viruses in November 2018 — just over a year before the first reported Wuhan coronavirus case, according to an FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News.
“Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials,” the report reads. The vials were labeled “Antibodies”, and the unnamed scientist said he was asked to deliver them to a researcher at a U.S. institute.
The report also lays out a pattern of Chinese interference, detailing two other cases from May 2018 and September 2019, in which different Chinese nationals tried to enter the U.S. with undeclared flu strains and suspected E. coli, respectively.
So it appears they are certainly trying, and likely working with Americans (communists).
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verboten ago
Because of contamination? How long does a virus survive on a container? How long does it take for a ship to go from China to Australia? This panic makes people more sick than a virus could ever do.
kestrel9 ago
I don't know about containers, but the virus can survive 72 hours on smooth surfaces like metal. I assume that's indoors (yet some States are closing parks and playgrounds).
verboten ago
Yes, smooth surface and room temperature and no UV light. Longer if the virus is covered by biological material or if it's cold. One study found no differences between SARS-CoV-1 and 2, so you can use the numbers already found for SARS 1. The good news is that the virus gets easily deactivated by disinfectants, other viruses are much more resistant.
kestrel9 ago
yikes!
burnthegoyimhaters ago
Oh yah, forgot to tell ya, they got way worse ones coming down the pipe. They're going to get the global population down to 250 mil, believe that.
kestrel9 ago
I don't believe that.
burnthegoyimhaters ago
Chinese nationalists are smuggling vials of the nastiest stuff they can out of government research facilities that should be burned to the ground imo.
WickedVocalist ago
So, you admit you're an environmental terrorism suspect?
kestrel9 ago
Not that we'd expect to see much reporting, but while there is plenty of news stories of Chinese persons smuggling vials of things out of the US to take to China, so far I've only found this case of smuggling something into the US. https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-stopped-chinese-biologist-194214726.html
So it appears they are certainly trying, and likely working with Americans (communists).