Have you stopped buying from China for now?

[Jayro]

I'm moving, and don't need my packages from China to be delivered a month later at my old place. So yeah, I've stopped for now. Plus, I don't want their shitty bat soup firus that's named after a shitty Mexican beer company.

 

[Theroid]

the virus does not survive long on objects.. so yes, still ordering

 

[DANTENDO]

the virus does not survive long on objects.. so yes, still ordering

The coronavirus can live on door handles and bus or train poles for up to nine days — more than four times longer than flu, according to new research. - don't buy any door handles

 

[Theroid]

oh yeah thats true.
but i do not life in china. and transit normaly takes more than a month for me

 

[pop13_13]

The Coronavirus not only made fatal victims, but has also affected China's economy, unsurprisingly.

I personally don't order from China, but rather buy from within the country I live in or from another Western country. I've noticed a lot of sellers on eBay say they dispatch from Great Britain, but when you check their profile it says Hong Kong (China), for example.

Oh yes, FFP3 masks are also selling out quite quickly on Amazon (U.K.) and on eBay they're being scalped. Imagine that, even when people might need a mask, they'll have to pay premium price rather than the original. Damn greed.

The cironavirus has killed less people in the same time as flu... So not realy concerned about getting infected from packages (and it doesen't live long enough to survive the slow shipping).

I'm more concerned about getting my spare part supply cut off (I fix and mod consoles and sell them on a local version of craigslist). Without sd2vita, replacement Vita screens and spare parts in general, I can't fix the most interesting (and most profitable) consoles.

 

[FAST6191]

The coronavirus can live on door handles and bus or train poles for up to nine days — more than four times longer than flu, according to new research. - don't buy any door handles

Going to need sources for that one. Not that it was responsibility but did a search for fomite and corona and got back not a lot there, no news stories, no research articles, no articles from health authorities. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/factsheet-health-professionals-coronaviruses mentioned MERS for 24-48 hours, not mentions of specifics for this. The WHO fact sheet also mentioned not a lot other than fomite transmission was a possibility.

9 days is rather longer than most things survive on such surfaces in general as well for fomite transmission, most such things tending to be around that timeframe and this would represent a somewhat novel vector or aspect of the epidemiology and containment/control.

 

[DANTENDO]

Going to need sources for that one. Not that it was responsibility but did a search for fomite and corona and got back not a lot there, no news stories, no research articles, no articles from health authorities. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/factsheet-health-professionals-coronaviruses mentioned MERS for 24-48 hours, not mentions of specifics for this. The WHO fact sheet also mentioned not a lot other than fomite transmission was a possibility.

9 days is rather longer than most things survive on such surfaces in general as well for fomite transmission, most such things tending to be around that timeframe and this would represent a somewhat novel vector or aspect of the epidemiology and containment/control.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cor...s-on-surfaces-for-up-to-9-days-report-2177234

 

[linuxares]

I'm moving, and don't need my packages from China to be delivered a month later at my old place. So yeah, I've stopped for now. Plus, I don't want their shitty bat soup firus that's named after a shitty Mexican beer company.

Holy crap you are wrong on so many levels! I can't even...

 

[Skelletonike]

Nope. Although I haven't bought much lately.
I will not stop buying from china for a silly reason like that.

 

[DANTENDO]

Noone should worry about it - if Yr gonna get it you just hav to deal with it - it's impossible to protect yrself unless you live in a bunker for a few months

 

[FAST6191]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cor...s-on-surfaces-for-up-to-9-days-report-2177234

Random Indian news source but the researcher quoted does appear to be noted elsewhere.
9 days also seems to be "ideal conditions" like low temp and high humidity rather than anything you are likely to see on the slow boat from China (especially as it is Chinese new years).

 

[Deleted User]

we know the culprit of the declining sales is that simpsons episode.
I'm surprised no clickbait site has a made a "THE SIMPS PREDICTED THE CORONA MOUNTAIN VIRUS???" article yet

 

[zxr750j]

Ordered some usb adapterconverter thingy last week for a couple bucks. I'm not worried at all by being infected that way. I'm more worried that my children contract a venereal disease. the same counts: Educate yourself and those around you about risks and consequences, read up from reliable sources and use common sense and protection if and when necessary, but don't stop living.

 

[Mythical]

As long as they're not shipping humans I don't think this should be an issue.

 

[DANTENDO]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/10/21131118/mwc-2020-coronavirus-sony-amazon-cancel

 

[eyeliner]

I did, because there's nothing I really want/need and mostly, no money to spend.

Oh, it's about that virus? No matter, I'd kill the bug depressa.

 

[sarkwalvein]

7,770 confirmed cases with 170 deaths. And? I'm still waiting for you to make your point because so far I am not convinced.

In magnitude, scale and velocity, 2019-nCoV is too big a problem for any one team to solve. On Monday, China recorded its largest single-day surge of deaths, at 97, pushing the total reported dead worldwide to 910, with more than 40,500 people infected on four continents.

source

This is only starting, numbers are delayed due to the long symptomless incubation period of many weeks.
And anyway, numbers are showing contagion and death grow exponentially.

 

[Veho]

Now, stuff that's made in China? Well, I'm kind of waiting for those manufacturing jobs to return to the States.

That's very very very improbable. Even before this whole virus thing those companies were planning to pull production out of China because it was getting too expensive, and moving it somewhere cheaper. I doubt they will bring those jobs back to the States when they can get it done ten times cheaper somewhere else.

 

[Jayro]

Holy crap you are wrong on so many levels! I can't even...

The beer joke was... a joke. but it DID come from bats afterall. SOURCE

 

[leon315]

The mortality rate is only 2%. Unless you're already old and sick you'll probably be fine. There is a known case of a 34 year old doctor dying from it though.

afak it was the doctor who worked very closely to the victims before the quarantin, when the ways to spread the virus were still unclear.