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SARS-cov-2 survives days on cardboard. If you can’t give two fcks for the workers, do it for tour own consumers’ ass. Amazon must enforce sanitary and safe w

by eecc 7y ago

SARS-cov-2 survives days on cardboard. If you can’t give two fcks for the workers, do it for tour own consumers’ ass. Amazon must enforce sanitary and safe working conditions during the COVID19 epidemic lest it becomes itself a source of contagion. More so now that home delivery is so important in the “stay home” strategy. For fcks sake people, how big a stick do you need before you notice?!

soperj 7y ago
> SARS-cov-2 survives days on cardboard. It doesn't.
- koheripbal 7y ago
  Yes, it does. In low humidity, room temperature settings, the virus can last for days on a surface.
- y-c-o-m-b 7y ago
  From https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru... > The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. 24 hours is within the time-frame of same-day deliveries at the least. I think OP's point still stands; it's a disease vector.
  - soperj 7y ago
    24 hours isn't days.
    - eecc 7y ago
      Oh there! See that? It’s the point you missed that just flew over your head
      - soperj 7y ago
        It's almost like I didn't really care so much about your point, and just wanted to point out that your information was flawed so that it doesn't get repeated elsewhere.
        eecc 7y ago
        Ah ok, so if I had used “packaging” instead of “carton” I’d have satisfied your censorious zeal? Someone else already mentioned this study, I’m sure you’ll entertain yourself finding other factual errors within: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru...
  - CamperBob2 7y ago
    'Detectable' isn't the same as 'infectious,' though. There is zero evidence of actual transmission from mail and packaging materials.
    - retsibsi 7y ago
      If transmission via packaging were happening, what evidence would you expect us to have at this point, and why? (Absence of evidence can be evidence of absence, but only in proportion to how easy the evidence would be to find if it existed, and how hard we've looked.)

by eecc 7y ago

soperj 7y ago

> SARS-cov-2 survives days on cardboard. It doesn't.

koheripbal 7y ago
Yes, it does. In low humidity, room temperature settings, the virus can last for days on a surface.
y-c-o-m-b 7y ago
From https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru... > The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. 24 hours is within the time-frame of same-day deliveries at the least. I think OP's point still stands; it's a disease vector.
- soperj 7y ago
  24 hours isn't days.
  - eecc 7y ago
    Oh there! See that? It’s the point you missed that just flew over your head
    - soperj 7y ago
      It's almost like I didn't really care so much about your point, and just wanted to point out that your information was flawed so that it doesn't get repeated elsewhere.
      - eecc 7y ago
        Ah ok, so if I had used “packaging” instead of “carton” I’d have satisfied your censorious zeal? Someone else already mentioned this study, I’m sure you’ll entertain yourself finding other factual errors within: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru...
- CamperBob2 7y ago
  'Detectable' isn't the same as 'infectious,' though. There is zero evidence of actual transmission from mail and packaging materials.
  - retsibsi 7y ago
    If transmission via packaging were happening, what evidence would you expect us to have at this point, and why? (Absence of evidence can be evidence of absence, but only in proportion to how easy the evidence would be to find if it existed, and how hard we've looked.)