-------- In message <1626784396.61618.1580801360...@mail.yahoo.com>, Perry Sandeen via t ime-nuts writes:
>In all seriousness, can the coronavirus be transmitted in gear we >buy from China or does it require a living host for spreading? Very few vira can survive 14 days, and for all we know at present that time is sufficient to desinfect 2019-nCov, and to detect any infections. A few specialized infectious agents have the ability to produce "spores" which can survive for *long* periods of time, and then revive on contact with humidity. The best known example is Anthrax. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
