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Do You Quarantine or Sanitize Mail & Deliveries
March 18, 2020, 01:50 PM
FenrisDo You Quarantine or Sanitize Mail & Deliveries
If so for how long do you quarantine?
High heat in the clothes dryer for a couple hours?
Spritz with diluted bleach?
Chant ancient incantations?
God Bless and Protect our Beloved President, Donald John Trump. March 18, 2020, 01:53 PM
smlsigD. None of the above.
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Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina
March 18, 2020, 02:06 PM
BigSwedeWash/sanatize your hands often and don't touch yer face
March 18, 2020, 02:07 PM
12131Nope.
It's funny folks freak out and do all kinds of shit, when normal daily practice of good hand hygiene is the number one way of minimizing your chance of catching infectious diseases.
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March 18, 2020, 02:09 PM
az4783054only if the package comes from Italy or Wuhan China.
March 18, 2020, 02:10 PM
PerceptionNo.
"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards."
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." March 18, 2020, 02:14 PM
BigSwede
March 18, 2020, 02:30 PM
egregorequote:
Do You Quarantine or Sanitize Mail & Deliveries
For Christ's sake.
No. However, I would be very suspicious if I got any blankets.
March 18, 2020, 02:52 PM
kkinaI've seen 24 hours as the time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on paper/cardboard.
March 18, 2020, 04:10 PM
wreckdiverquote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've seen 24 hours as the time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on paper/cardboard.
Nothing gets to my remote address that quick, sometimes not even Next Day air.
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March 18, 2020, 04:18 PM
2AdefenderNo. I wash my hands.
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March 18, 2020, 04:22 PM
ZSMICHAELquote:
It's funny folks freak out and do all kinds of shit, when normal daily practice of good hand hygiene is the number one way of minimizing your chance of catching infectious diseases.
^^^^^^^^^^^
It is really that simple. Follow the advice.
March 18, 2020, 04:49 PM
FredwardIf you're really concerned, wash your hands after opening it and disposing of the envelopes. And avoid the toilet licking craze.
March 18, 2020, 05:08 PM
ensigmaticMy wife tends to handle all the incoming snail mail. So I fetch it out of the mailbox, drop it on a table, and tell her "Some contaminated paper for you"
We're a little more careful with snail mail and packages than we typically are, but, no: We don't quarantine it, give it a heat treatment, spray it with disinfectant, wear a hazmat suit when opening it, etc.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher March 18, 2020, 05:27 PM
ontmarkPut it under a bright light and hit it quickly with the flame thrower.
It needs a dark and damp place to live.
Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! - John Steinbeck
March 18, 2020, 05:34 PM
TigerDorequote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've seen 24 hours as the time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on paper/cardboard.
I have read that it is 3 days.
The information is coming so fast and is so conflicting, there is no way to be certain what is correct.
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March 18, 2020, 05:37 PM
kkinaquote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've seen 24 hours as the time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on paper/cardboard.
I have read that it is 3 days.
The information is coming so fast and is so conflicting, there is no way to be certain what is correct.
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I think it's 72 hours on steel and plastic surfaces.
March 18, 2020, 05:42 PM
TigerDorequote:
Originally posted by kkina:
quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've seen 24 hours as the time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on paper/cardboard.
I have read that it is 3 days.
The information is coming so fast and is so conflicting, there is no way to be certain what is correct.
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I think it's 72 hours on steel and plastic surfaces.
I think you are right.
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March 18, 2020, 06:02 PM
kkinaWell, it's only educated guesses at this point.
Airborne: 3 hours
Copper: 4 hours
Paper and cardboard: 24 hours
Steel and plastic: 72 hours
An earlier study postulated longevity at 9 days, but this was based on extrapolation of previous coronaviruses (SARS & MERS).
March 18, 2020, 06:12 PM
braillediverI've also read 3 days. We wipe down perishables and put the other groceries aside for 5 days.
We've been doing this since the beginning of the month. I'm in the Redmond Wa. area pretty much the epicenter.
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